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Steve Wozniak agrees with critics who say Apple Card is sexist

Even Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak couldn’t avoid trouble with the company’s new credit card.

The Woz took to Twitter over the weekend to agree with critics who say the Apple Card may be “gender-biased” because it gives higher credit limits to men than women, saying he and his wife, Janet, were forced to endure the same problem.

“We have no separate bank or credit card accounts or any separate assets. Hard to get to a human for a correction though. It’s big tech in 2019,” Wozniak wrote Saturday in response to entrepreneur David Heinemeier Hansson’s series of tweets about the “gender bias” problem.

“We have joint cards from Capital One . . . We don’t have different limits on those cards,” said Wozniak, who is a ceremonial Apple employee after stepping down in 1985.  “I care more about justice than money.”

Earlier in the week, Hansson accused the company of giving him 20 times the credit limit that his wife received — even though they filed joint tax returns, and she had a better credit score.

Some critics agreed, saying Apple’s new titanium credit card — which partnered with Goldman Sachs Group Inc to launch in August — discriminated based on sex.

The bank denied it Sunday, saying, “We have not, and will not, make decisions based on factors like gender,” a spokesman for the firm said.

Apple Card applicants are evaluated independently, according to income and creditworthiness, taking into account factors such as personal credit scores and personal debt, a rep for the bank said.

New York’s Department of Financial Services said it is beginning an investigation into Goldman Sachs’ credit card practices, according to Market Watch.

“New York law prohibits discrimination against protected classes of individuals,” Linda Lacewell, the superintendent of the New York State Department of Financial Services, wrote in a blog post

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