With the plethora of books, TV shows, and movies that have come out in the last few years detailing the life of Steve Jobs, there is relatively little information about the former Apple CEO that is not considered common knowledge.
The Ashton Kutcher movie “Jobs” did create a bit of controversy for how it portrayed Jobs’ level of involvement when it came to the design and development of Apple’s first products.
While it’s fairly well known that Jobs was never heavily involved in the technical stuff at Apple, it’s never been fully clear as to just how uninvolved he was in the early stages. Clarifying this bit of questionable data is 14-year-old entrepreneur Sarina Khemchandani , who was able to score an interview with Jobs’ business partner at the time, Steve Wozniak, courtesy of “Reach A Student”.
Here’s how Wozniak responded to Khemchandani’s request for clarification:
Steve Jobs played no role at all in any of my designs of the Apple I and Apple II computer and printer interfaces and serial interfaces and floppy disks and stuff that I made to enhance the computers. He did not know technology. He’d never designed anything as a hardware engineer and he didn’t know software. He wanted to be important and the important people are always the business people. So that’s what he wanted to do.
I wanted to be the engineer, in a laboratory, like a mad scientist. So that was my thing.
The Apple II computer, by the way, was the only successful product Apple had for its first 10 years and it was all done, for my own reasons for myself, before Steve Jobs even knew it existed.
So I had created it and it was just waiting for a company. And Steve Jobs was my good friend, the businessman.
The interview is broken up into three clips, which you can access via YouTube. If you’re interested in this particular part of the conversation, check out the video below—Wozniak discusses Jobs’ involvement at about the 3:45 mark; if you want to hear how the two met, back track to the 2:30 mark.
Via Yahoo!
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