[nirvana]

Woz hasn't worked for Apple since the early 1980s. He got in a minor plane crash, got freaked out because he could have died and was "wasting his life in business" or something like that. Stopped working for Apple and started putting on the "US Festival!" which was not a financial success. So he stopped. He's been pursuing essentially charitable causes, for the most part, since.

He did invent the universal remote (but it got copied by everybody right away.)

He's a nice and well meaning guy and was a consumate engineer. But he was never the product guy.

On the Apple II he liked to try and get as much functionality out of as few parts as a challenge-- a technical challenge. It was Jobs who knew this would let them have a competitive advantage (or cared about it, anyway.)

He was critical to the early years of Apple. Jobs was not nearly as good of an engineer (but unlike what many people seem to think, Jobs was an engineer.)

but it was Jobs who understood how to make products really great, and why you needed to, and who made Apple the company it is today.

It was Jobs who cared about design as much as engineering.

[nachteilig]

I can't thank you enough for this post. It really bothers me that Woz always manages to get so much attention for his seemingly anti-Apple opinions for this very reason. He's a great guy, but he hasn't been involved at Cupertino for a majority of Apple's existence now.