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Steve Wozniak about Steve Jobs: > Jobs was a good husband and father and a great businessman who had an eye for details. He said Jobs was a good marketer and u
by wsc981 14y ago
Steve Wozniak about Steve Jobs:
> Jobs was a good husband and father and a great businessman who had an eye for details. He said Jobs was a good marketer and understood the benefits of technology.
> When it came to Apple's products, "while everyone else was fumbling around trying to find the formula, he had the better instincts," he said.
> According to Wozniak, Jobs told him around the time he left Apple in 1985 that he had a feeling he would die before the age of 40. Because of that, "a lot of his life was focused on trying to get things done quickly," Wozniak said.
> "I think what made Apple products special was very much one person, but he left a legacy," he said. Because of this, Wozniak hopes the company can continue to be successful despite Jobs' death.
Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/06/steve-wozniak-steve-jobs-death_n_997533.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/06/steve-wozniak-steve...
While you're right that Steve Jobs would have gone nowhere without Steve Wozniak, the reverse is likely also true. Steve Wozniak had a big doubt on working on the Apple start-up; the security HP offered him was very tempting. I don't think the world would have known about Steve Wozniak if Steve Jobs didn't convince him to leave HP for the Apple start-up.
I agree Steve Jobs might have been a sociopath, but then again, aren't many higher-up people in other businesses either? I think what mattered for Apple is that Steve Jobs cared about products most of all - sociopaths at many other companies only seem to care about how much money they make.
- gavanwoolery 14y agoGood points - I'd have to say I agree with you.
- rodgerd 14y agoWoz clearly has a different definition of being a good father to me; I think spending years in court to deny responsibility for your child pretty much disqualifies one for that particular praise.
- EduardoBautista 14y agoSteve Jobs said that he regretted his behavior during that time. He also later gave her daughter and her mother enough money to live on and became closer to her daughter.
- precisioncoder 14y agoI think that says more about Steve Wozniak than Steve Jobs. From what I've read about him he's an amazing person that is easy going and very forgiving. I think while his greatness may have been less visible he would have been great regardless of which path he took.