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Re:Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak by d23 on Saturday January 03, 2015 @10:23PM (#8833125)
Part of me thinks this is a bit sleazy. He knows how recognizable the name "Wozniak" is, and doubly so if he's going to be running a tech blog and posting about Aplle related things. Would gregwozniak.ca or gwozniak.ca been that much worse? It would be infinitely less confusing and link-baity.
Re:Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak by gtaylor on Saturday January 03, 2015 @10:25PM (#8833133)
If his last name is in fact Wozniak, I'm not sure I see a problem.
Re:Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak by ianremsen on Saturday January 03, 2015 @10:40PM (#8833173)
I don't see why happening to have a famous person with your last name means you can't use your last name for a domain. If a) Ira Remsen was still alive and b) I was a food blogger instead of a tech enthusiast, I wouldn't hesitate to buy remsen.com or remsen.food (if i wanted it) just because Ira happened to invent artificial sweeteners.
Re:Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak by JeremyBanks on Saturday January 03, 2015 @10:29PM (#8833145)
Why would the Woz have a .ca domain? That tipped me off that this might not be him.
Re:Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak by axotty on Saturday January 03, 2015 @10:28PM (#8833142)
I definitely clicked and read the entire article only because I thought it was written by Woz. I agree, it is link-baity and misleading.

EDIT: Holy down votes. Don't know what to say. I thought it was Woz, sosume. All I did was agree with the less-downvoted parent.

EDIT 2: Hive mind crit axotty for 9999.

Re:Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak by lawnchair_larry on Saturday January 03, 2015 @10:31PM (#8833148)
You thought Woz was Canadian?

It's the guys name. Using ones own name cannot be linkbaity or misleading.

Re:Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak by uniformlyrandom on Saturday January 03, 2015 @11:44PM (#8833363)
Many people interpret 'ca' as 'California'. The same way 'it' it not always Italy, and 'mx' is not always Mexico.
Re:Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak by axotty on Saturday January 03, 2015 @10:40PM (#8833175)
It is when your name is identical to the co-Founder's name. It's link-baity by the fact that many people were baited into clicking that link under false pretenses.

I'm not accusing this Wozniak of malice, however.

I didn't look at the TLD I just clicked. I thought Woz was ditching OS X, I got excited. I was baited.

Re:Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak by pikachu_is_cool on Saturday January 03, 2015 @11:36PM (#8833346)
If it means anything, amidst all of the downvotes I completely agree with you.
Re:Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak by corndoge on Saturday January 03, 2015 @10:35PM (#8833158)
About 50 pixels to the left of the title is "Geoff Wozniak"...furthermore, I don't think it's fair to disparage people with names that happen to be shared by celebrities.
Re:Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak by axotty on Saturday January 03, 2015 @10:41PM (#8833180)
I was on Safari on iOS, it didn't appear until the end of the article.
Re:Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak by robert_tweed on Sunday January 04, 2015 @12:33AM (#8833486)
I'm going to commit the cardinal sin of meta-commenting twice on the same submission and rhetorically ask why anyone would be downvoting the parent?

To clarify the stated fact: the name appears in the left margin on an iPad, just like on a desktop browser at normal width. However on an iPhone, it appears at the bottom of the page. It does the same thing if your browser window is set to less than 768px wide.

It's not hard to see how in those circumstances, someone could be misled into thinking that the article's author was Woz, especially if they didn't read all the way to the end.