good in one thing. Steve Jobs had been
coming to town. I met him about five years
before Apple. He came into town about
once a year and looked at the latest thing
that I had invented for myself for fun, and
he always turned them into money.”
Wozniak also introduced Jobs to his com-
puter club. “Don’t believe the movie that
shows [Jobs] dragging me off to a com-
puter club. I was a hero at that club!” he
laughed, referencing a scene in Aaron Sor-
kin’s biopic, Steve Jobs.
APPLE’S MOST IMPORTANT
PRODUCT…
“If you make something for yourself, that’s
the best marketing tool,” says Wozniak,
adding he built the computer that he want-
ed to use. In that vein, he said he thinks
Apple’s most important product is the
third-party App store. “Siri was a third-par-
ty App,” he notes, adding that the App has
“changed” his life by its ability to navigate
the web and answer questions. “The most
important thing Apple’s ever put out in my
“Everything I made, I wanted it to be the best.”—Steve Wozniak
Dwight Drummond, CBC News Toronto anchor and Steve Wozniak,
co-founder of Apple Photo credit: George Pimentel Photography.
JUNE 2017
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