The partnership between Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak is one of the computer industry's defining relationships. Together, they were responsible for setting the ground work for the personal computer revolution and building Apple into the colossus it is today.
In a recent interview conducted on Youtube, Wozniak shed some more light onto the dynamic the two had. He told Sarina Khemchandani, the 14 year old entrepreneur behind the channel, that Jobs had no role in the designing of the company's Apple I and II computers.
"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," Wozniak said. "He did not know technology. He wanted to be important, and the important people are always the business people. So that's what he wanted to do."
This is a portrait that isn't too far from the many portrayals of the pair in film and television. With Wozniak as the behind the scenes hardware wizard and Jobs as the master pitchman.
'I wanted to be the engineer, in a laboratory, like a mad scientist. So that was my thing. The Apple II computer 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.' Wozniak added.
The story of Jobs and Wozniak will once again hit theatres later this year when Michael Fassbender and Seth Rogen fill the shoes of Jobs and Wozniak respectively in Danny Boyle's biopic 'Steve Jobs.
