iCon

Steve Wozniak is one of the kindest people in the world.  He also revolutionized computers in way that no one that changed everything.  The book iWoz is an autobiography about Steve Wonziak and his experiences living through the computer revolution.  As I read through his experiences I am in awe of his ability to manipulate a computer's software and hardware and allow them to work together in harmony, something that many computer companies still fail at doing today.

First let's talk about the way he revolutionized computing.  One day he and his close friend Steve Jobs were in Steve Wozniak's room talking about college, when suddenly a news reporter burst in asking Wozniak about an object on his desk.  That object was the APPLE I.  Later that day Steve Jobs envisioned a world where everyone had a computer.  He envisioned a world where computers where cheap and accessible to almost every person in the world.  When he told Steve Wozniak about these ambitions, Woz was worried.  You see, Woz had a job at Hewlett-Packard which meant that anything he invented had to go through Hewlett-Packerd.  When he broke the news to Jobs, Jobs was furious.  Luckily Hewlett-Packard signed an agreement that allowed Jobs and Wozniak to keep the invention, HP thought the idea of a computer for regular people was crazy.  That was the biggest mistake HP ever made.

Woz used that computer to build the empire Apple is today.  The APPLE I represented all of the innovations that were coming to Apple.  In a sense, Apple was Woz's child.  Boy was he proud.