Why Did Steve Wozniak Leave Apple?

Dec 14, 2023

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Youssef Mohamed

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For many people, once they hear the name “Apple”, Steve Jobs would always be the first thing that comes to mind, since for so many users around the world, Steve Jobs symbolized Apple and was the only one worth mentioning whenever the biggest Tech company in the world was mentioned, but this is not at all true as Apple’s success relied on the efforts of two Steves and not one.

Known by his nickname “Woz”, Wozniak and his back-then business partner, Jobs, decided to launch a company back in 1976 with the name “Apple Inc.” with the hopes that their tiny business can maybe one day become a successful computer manufacturer.

However, despite starting the company together, their roles and what they did for Apple were completely different. Whereas Jobs was known as being a leader and a visionary who took Apple’s big decisions and decided which direction Apple was going to head, Wozniak was the one actually responsible for building and developing the devices to be sold.

He is the person who would sit in an office for hours on end, building the circuits and searching for any means of improving their devices and making them even the tiniest bit more efficient no matter how long that took, and he was indeed great at his job and was widely known as one of the main pioneers of pc manufacturing as everything that Apple achieved was surely built on his product development.

His work for Apple started with the development of the “Apple computer” which was later known as the “Apple I”, and it was the first computer ever that Apple produced. This computer was then used as the base for the “Apple II” which was also made by Wozniak and was a tremendous success, considered by many to be the first-ever successful mass-produced computer, and was a big hit for Apple taking their annual sales from $775,000 to a staggering 118 million dollars and putting Apple on the map as a big company to watch for.