Steve Wozniak on Steve Jobs: (from CNN late August)

[housewolf]

http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/10/steve-wozniak-on-steve-jobs-jobs-was-always-one-step-ahead.php

CNN’s Piers Morgan interviewed Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak late August when Steve Jobs announced his resignation as Apple’s CEO.

Wozniak told Morgan that Jobs’ goal was to give “mankind the most useful, helpful tools we’ve ever had in our history, the one that we would enjoy most, ones that we not only use, but we love.”

There’s no doubt that the world loves the iPad, with its myriad uses. Aside from getting a whole new generation of previously computer-phobic people connected to the internet, it promises to change industries, and some say, even education.


2 Video clips at the link

[trueblue2007]

1. CAN'T BELIEVE STEVE JOBS PASSED AWAT

[housewolf]

3. Yeah - I would have thought we'd have had some warning

Somehow they managed to keep it out of the news for the past however-many days that he was in the hospital and close to death. It was a shock to me, and to many others I imagine.

[Occupied1]

4. The pictures of him looking skeletal didn't clue you in?

[JI7]

5. it wasn't really a shock, many were surprised he lasted as long as he did

plus after he resigned there was a pic of him which showed he didn't have much time left.

[tavalon]

7. We had warning

When he resigned from Apple a few months ago, people here were already eulogizing him. I was one of the people who asked that we wait to do that and that the wait wouldn't be long. As we all remember from Andy Stephenson, pancreatic cancer is fast and vicious.

He was a great visionary. I joke a lot about the cloud of smug around apple but honestly, they earned it. He was revolutionary many times over.

[Electric Monk]

2. In my book he's right up there with Ford, Carlin, Galileo and Da Vinci

He was a very special man. He was a gift. He will be missed.

[Occupied1]

6. That was Wozniak's goal, not Jobs'. He's saying it because Jobs died & he has to say something.

Q. Are you still close friends?

A. Not close friends. Even when Apple really got started we weren't close friends because he had a different motivation in the company, which was to run a company, and mine was just to be a top engineer that did clever, clever projects. So we almost never saw each other in the company.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2002929498_wozqa14.html


I wouldn't be friends with someone who ripped me off for chump change either. there's a reason Wozniak got out.

[Ichingcarpenter]

8. Steve Wozniak on Steve Jobs: On Steve's Death

STEVE Wozniak, who started Apple in a Silicon Valley garage with Steve Jobs in 1976, says he'll miss his fellow co-founder "as much as everyone."

"We've lost something we won't get back," he said in an interview following Jobs' death .

"The way I see it, though, the way people love products (that) he put so much into creating means he brought a lot of life to the world."



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.


http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/steve-jobs-dies/fellow-apple-co-founder-steve-wozniak-says-jobs-had-the-instincts/story-fn9t9liq-1226160454473