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by qwerty456127 1813 days ago
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.
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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.

>> "why doesn't water explode when you dissolve salt in it?".

> Because you have to melt the salt first.

Oh, god! You gave me a nice rabbit hole to explore. Thanks!

Also thanks for understanding my attitude. I loved this interaction.

You walked right into that one tbh.
> to which I attribute the fact I'm not nearly as awesome as Steve Jobs was

There are lots of other possible reasons.