iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It
by Steve Wozniak
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Author: Steve WozniakContributor: Gina Smith
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-10-22
ISBN: 0393330435
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: W. W. Norton
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Book Review: Wozniaks (lame) attempt to not be forgotten
Summary: 2 Stars
I just finished reading iWoz last night and I have to say that I was extremely dissapointed.
This book offers advice at the end, almost as an afterhought. If Wozniak wanted to make the book more interesting it would have served him better to turn the last chapter into a phamplet and sell that.
Reading through this book you will find several digs at Steve Jobs. Immediately I realized that Woz is quite bitter and resentful against Jobs.
There is no doubt in my mind about Woz's intelligence and what he has created but he talks about it in such a boastful way that it begins to become draining. "I was the first to do this, I was the first to do that" over and over again.
What I realized at the end of the book is that Wozniak has taken everything he has for granted. He forgets what while he may have invented many things he would not have financially benefited from ANY of it without Apple and without Jobs. He would still be a engineer at HP in their calculator division had OTHERS not worked with him. He rarely credits others for getting him where he is today.
My opinion of Steve Wozniak was much higher BEFORE I read this book. Unfortunately this book made me see what kind of person Steve Wozniak is, perhaps this is why he's burnt through so many wives. He's arrogant, self-centered and egotistical. Perhaps if you want a lesson in how to be thankless to those who've helped you reach much success you should give this book a read.
While Woz claims he did this book to 'set the story straight' it reads more like a last ditch attempt at not being forgotten.
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Summary of iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It
The mastermind behind Apple sheds his low profile and steps forward to tell his story for the first time.Before cell phones that fit in the palm of your hand and slim laptops that fit snugly into briefcases, computers were like strange, alien vending machines. They had cryptic switches, punch cards and pages of encoded output. But in 1975, a young engineering wizard named Steve Wozniak had an idea: What if you combined computer circuitry with a regular typewriter keyboard and a video screen? The result was the first true personal computer, the Apple I, a widely affordable machine that anyone could understand and figure out how to use.
Wozniak's life-before and after Apple-is a "home-brew" mix of brilliant discovery and adventure, as an engineer, a concert promoter, a fifth-grade teacher, a philanthropist, and an irrepressible prankster. From the invention of the first personal computer to the rise of Apple as an industry giant, iWoz presents a no-holds-barred, rollicking, firsthand account of the humanist inventor who ignited the computer revolution. 16 pages of illustrations.
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