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Why didn't he take over Apple as Steve Jobs died? UPDATE: this is another comment which got heavily up-voted first and heavily down-woted shortly after. I alwa

Why didn't he take over Apple as Steve Jobs died? UPDATE: this is another comment which got heavily up-voted first and heavily down-woted shortly after. I always find such fluctuations curious.

silviot 5y ago
Why didn't you?
- qwerty456127 5y 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.
  - zabzonk 5y ago
    > to which I attribute the fact I'm not nearly as awesome as Steve Jobs was There are lots of other possible reasons.
  - silviot 5y ago
    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.
    - qwerty456127 5y ago
      > "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.
      - silviot 5y ago
        >> "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.
        advanced-DnD 5y ago
        You walked right into that one tbh.
vaylian 5y ago
He left the company a long time ago. And he probably had his reasons.
kerblang 5y ago
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)

Why didn't he take over Apple as Steve Jobs died? UPDATE: this is another comment which got heavily up-voted first and heavily down-woted shortly after. I always find such fluctuations curious.

silviot 5y ago

Why didn't you?

qwerty456127 5y 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.
- zabzonk 5y ago
  > to which I attribute the fact I'm not nearly as awesome as Steve Jobs was There are lots of other possible reasons.
- silviot 5y ago
  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.
  - qwerty456127 5y ago
    > "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.
    - silviot 5y ago
      >> "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.
      - advanced-DnD 5y ago
        You walked right into that one tbh.

vaylian 5y ago

He left the company a long time ago. And he probably had his reasons.

kerblang 5y ago

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)