I think it's important to realize that Jobs was human and not the most humane among us. Thank you for pointing out this very important distinction. How would you think Woz would have fared in deep technical discussions involving the iPhone? How many engineers do you know who have worked at the highest level for 35 years? Technology was only one of the aspects that Jobs understood quite well. Jobs could work with the best engineers/marketeers/design/retail people during Apple II and the iPad. There is no need to pull him down and artificially elevate Woz to something he was not. Jobs was highly involved in not just the technical aspects but the overall vision of Apple I, II, Macintosh, iPod, iPhone, iPad. I find it sad that engineers project their own insecurities in this whole Jobs/Woz saga. Does that sound like someone who doesn’t know anything? In Woz’s response, quoted here, he mentions that Jobs was technical enough to alter/change/add to the design. In fact Jobs mentions that Woz was the first guy who knew more about electronics than he (Jobs) did. So, it is not at all surprising Jobs had limited input when it came to the Apple I and II design. Now Woz was clearly Genius level when it came to tight hardware/software engineering. There was some mainframe terminal in his high school that he first learnt how to code. In any case, if you watch some of Job’s old videos and biographical material, it was clear he knew coding. I doubt Woz would sound so belligerent now. It looks like the response was written when Jobs was still around.
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