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Did Jobs get Woz to write it for him?
by wnevets 10mo ago
Did Jobs get Woz to write it for him?
- jedberg 10mo agoJobs was an engineer too. :)
- blackguardx 10mo agoJobs was actually a technician at Atari, assembling circuit boards during the night shift. Jobs was later paid by Atari to make Breakout, but basically subcontracted it to Wozniak for 50% of the contract. Jobs ended up paying Wozniak less than 1/10 of how much Atari paid him.
- qingcharles 10mo agoWoz half-heartedly disputes that. He doesn't think that Jobs would have screwed him that badly, and in his kindness he also says that if Jobs did screw him then he doesn't care because he values their lifetime of friendship over one bum business deal.
- ErroneousBosh 10mo agoWoz is a wise man. If you've got enough in your pot you don't need to look in the other guy's pot.
- lostlogin 10mo agoI don’t think that’s what’s being suggested. Pay why you owe and what you promise. Doing anything less than that makes you a dick.
- wat10000 10mo agoBoth are true. Jobs was a dick and Woz handled it nicely. Woz got screwed over. Should he have pushed back on this? Maybe. Would Woz have had a better life if he had? I'm doubtful. I'd say Woz got the better deal in the long term. His friend had a tumultuous life and ultimately died of stubbornness. Woz seems to have had decades of good living.
- leptons 10mo agoIf one guy's pot is worth 10 billion, and the other's is worth 100 million, and the first guy got rich from the second guy's work, things seem a little bit upside down. 1% of Jobs wealth is still a lot of money, but the disparity is stark for two people who co-founded the company.
- ErroneousBosh 10mo agoIt's approximately 100 million more than you or I have.
- leptons 10mo agoWell we didn't found a company with Steve Jobs and get only 1% of the wealth from it.
- wnevets 10mo agoAn "engineer" that out sourced his work to Wozniak while at Atari
- TMWNN 10mo agoCalling him an engineer would be a stretch. As others aid, he was a hardware technician on an assembly line. That said, that experience, and this article, that Jobs had an understanding of computers and electronics when founding Apple beyond the "Woz = engineer, Jobs = sales guy" oversimplification. It's just that compared to Woz—one of the century's greatest engineering minds—anyone would look third-rate.
- djmips 10mo agoI wonder if he did get it ghost written. I would suspect yes.
- JKCalhoun 10mo agoIt would be a huge surprise to me if Jobs crunched the trig on this one.
- kevin_thibedeau 10mo agoCould have been Allan Baum. They were roommates for a summer.