“Steve Wozniak’s name is established in Apple folklore as the person who single-handedly designed the company’s first computer, the Apple I,” Seb Janacek writes for Silicon.com.
Janacek writes, “While the Apple I set the Cupertino start-up on its way towards commercial success, the Apple II, again a computer solely designed by Wozniak, turned the company and the computing world on its head.”
“Probably more so than his namesake Steve Jobs, without him there would be no Apple, let alone the Macintosh, iMac or iPod,” Janacek writes.
Full article here.
Woz’s website: http://www.woz.org/
Woz is a kindhearted, generous free spirit. If more people were like him, the world would be a far better place.
The two of them needed each other. Woz would not have pulled it off with Steve pushing him. They were the perfect pair to pull this off.
And the rest is History unfolding in front of our eyes. Enjoying the ride every minute.
I’ve always been impressed by Woz.
He seems to be a very rich man (in his heart). Very nice and honorable. Never says a bad word about anyone.
He just loves the world that he gets to live in… and good for him!
I shall now dub them: Steve Squared.
It doesn’t matter how great the invention is if no one buys it!!
It doesn’t matter how good a salesman you are if you have no product!
It took both Steves to do it!
Don’t forget, His Steveness also brought the NExT into the world without The Woz. They’re both very motivated and creative people in the their own way, and it’s likely both of them would have done well enough without the other. But we’re very lucky they knew each other.
when will Woz go away????
Geeez you guys are a pack rats, let it go
on MDN’s take:
the world would be a better place if we heard less from Woz
I agree with Zero – let it go
Woz was – not now.
iThought, therefore iWoz
When I saw that fatso riding a ginger and playing ‘polo’ I nearly fell out of my chair laughing. What a joke.
MDN – Agreed. Woz was a creative genius behind the success of Apple. Please keep posting articles about Woz! It IS a shame there aren’t more people like Woz. The world would indeed be a better place.
You Woz dising little boys need a serious ass beating. You ungrateful diaper soiling “application” users will never understand. Go back to you iPods.
cut the woz bashing!
i’ve said it before, its not normal for a male to admire another male with the intensity of some on this forum. repressed, unresolved issues may be exist.
finally, steve is straight.
Neither Steve could have done it without Mike Markkula. He made a fortune as the marketing manager for the Intel 8085 and retired. He visited the Steves in their original garage shop, and came out of retirement to invest in Apple. It was he who was mostly responsible for the marketing of the product. He brought in designers to make the case. And he who rounded up the VC guys such as VenRock capital.
Woz credits Markkula more than himself for the success of the II. (Note, I *did not* say he designed it, but it was he who saw that Apple emerged as front-runner from the pack of dozens of companies who were in the market at that time.)
Anybody remember Processor Technology? MITS? Cromemco? Compucolor? Polymorphic Systems? Vector Graphic? SWTP?
The only thing the ‘Woz’is shaping these days is a huge depression in his couch in the shape of his gigantic ass.
Why am I not surprised Zune Tang and gigantic ass go together???
Your humor has become as lame as you. Do us all a favor and just go away once and for all.