That is a really interesting speculation, and of course we will never know the answer. I do think it was ignorance about programming, combined with Steve's inf

That is a really interesting speculation, and of course we will never know the answer. I do think it was ignorance about programming, combined with Steve's infamous arrogance. I'd programmed in machine language on a few different architectures by that time, and not just assembly but binary machine code too. To me the 6502 just looked like another instruction set. But as you might guess, I have sometimes wondered "what if" I'd pushed back more. Would I have ended up a billionaire or at least a multi-millionaire? Or would Steve have driven me to the brink of despair, as he did with a few other people? (One dear friend of mine once said in an interview, "You may find that some people who worked with Steve won't want to talk about their experience.") Or perhaps worse for the world in the long run, could my involvement have led to Apple Computer's downfall? The dirty little secret is that I didn't have a 6502 chip to test my code on, but I was working at Tymshare [1] at that time, I had a Teletype [2] machine at home, and Tymshare had a 6502 emulator that I used to test my code. Oops! What if they had gotten wind of this and sued me and/or this little Apple Computer company? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tymshare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tymshare [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletype_Model_33 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletype_Model_33