Here, have a re-up. It seems weird that Woz is treated like a god, yet kept at arm's length; you'd think everybody would beg him to be CEO of their company just for the street cred. Alas, even posing the question pisses people off (although I was thinking HN pushes new questions a little ways upwards so that it doesn't become one endless argument about the first thing posted)
Because I have severe ADHD (to which I attribute the fact I'm not nearly as awesome as Steve Jobs was even though we have much in common otherwise) and little-to-no knowledge of Apple internals. If I had co/founded the company I most probably would.
What I meant with my comment is that your question sounded like "Why didn't Albert Einstein become the president of the United States?", and I believe it's not a "good" question, just like "why doesn't water explode when you dissolve salt in it?".
I doubt Apple stakeholders would have wanted Woz. And I doubt Woz would have wanted to do it.
The same is incredibly likely for most people (including you and me).
I probably came across as rude, and I apologize about that. I hope expanding my thoughts as I did above helps.
> "why doesn't water explode when you dissolve salt in it?".
Because you have to melt the salt first.
> I doubt Apple stakeholders would have wanted Woz.
They didn't want Steve Jobs either but it turnt out they were wrong.
> I probably came across as rude
Not at all, you came across as original and fun. Boring and/or rude people just downvote silently, cool people say something interesting or provoking. You did. I ended up thinking about that in more details and although I'm not taking the idea of taking over something as big seriously I feel inspired to fix some things and achieve more.