Steve Wozniak
speaker
809 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 21 May
Steve Wozniak’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The true power of the computer wasn't what it could do out of the box, but what it might become in the hands of creative users.
Jobs was optimizing for elegance for the mythical average user who would walk into a store and just fall in love with this beautiful beige box.
Wozniak, on the other hand, was optimizing for people who were just like him, the homebrew crowd, the engineers who would buy the first thousand units and become evangelists who would tinker.
Jobs wanted to control the experience.
Wozniak wanted to unleash it.
The argument got heated, really heated.
Finally, Wozniak delivered.
Wazniak wasn't interested.
Jobs blinked.
They settled on eight slots, seven general-purpose slots and one special slot for memory cards.
It was supposedly a compromise, but really it was Wozniak's victory.
And that victory would change everything.
The West Coast Computer Fair arrived in January 1977.
They get their first three plastic cases from the Apple II just three days before the show.
The cases were Jobs' contribution to the compromise.
Sleek and friendly, foam-molded plastic instead of cheap sheet metal.
No visible screws.
But there was one key feature.
The lid popped off easily.
So easily, it almost invited you to look inside and see how beautiful it was on the inside.
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