Aspects of Steve Jobs’ personality strike former Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak as, “very Trumpish,” Woz reportedly told an audience Tuesday night at Carnegie Music Hall as part of the American Middle East Institute’s 10th Conference.
Specifically, Woz seems to have been referring to Jobs cheating Woz out of some of the money for an early project the two collaborated on at Atari, his failure to listen, and tendency to say nasty things to people.
For those in any doubt, Wozniak isn’t much of a Donald Trump fan. In early 2016, he described the then-Presidential candidate as a, “very rude person.”
Woz didn’t elaborate too much on the comparison between Jobs and the current President, although it’s unlikely to be one overly well received by Apple, whose CEO Tim Cook has often found himself opposed to President Trump during his Presidency.
It’s not clear whether Trump and Steve Jobs knew each other, but Trump certainly seems to admire Apple’s late co-founder, based on his tweets over the years.
Steve Wozniak has a history of making attention-grabbing comments which often go against the Apple company line, such as suggesting that Apple build an Android device or referring to the Apple Watch as a “luxury fitness band.” (He has also often walked these comments back at a later date.)
On the subject of Steve Jobs, Woz noted that Danny Boyle and Aaron Sorkin’s movie Steve Jobs nailed the personality of Apple’s late co-founder, and was “right on the mark.”
He also said that, “Everything Apple tried without me failed,” referring to products launched during his time with the company, which attempted to replace the Apple II. Finally, he chimed in on the topic of whether robots threaten humans — saying that “If there is any danger, it’s decades off … I think, centuries off.”
Source: BizJournals
Luke Dormehl is a U.K.-based journalist and author, with a background working in documentary film for Channel 4 and the BBC. He is the author of The Apple Revolution and The Formula: How Algorithms Solve All Our Problems … and Create More, both published by Penguin/Random House. His tech writing has also appeared in Wired, Fast Company, Techmeme and other publications.
11 responses to “Woz: Aspects of Steve Jobs’ personality were ‘very Trumpish’”
Jobs knew he could be all of those nasty things. He admitted as much. To compare him to trump is unfair. Jobs left us with something wonderful. trump will leave us all devastated.
Jobs left us with something wonderful…really. name one wonderful thing that is not a product or toy?
What’s your point?
He gave me the ability to accomplish things that had previously been extremely hard to achieve. In essence, he gave me the ability to make a good living doing what I like. As for the man himself, I am only half-way a fan. 90% of what he did was great ant 10% was awful, but those are pretty good results.
He put thousands of people to work, he championed social equality and civil rights, and was philanthropist.
so did trump!
Trump has attacked the freedom of the press, taken away health care for millions, and literally put no one back to work. Jobs growth was down this month for the first time in seven years.
I guess you haven’t been paying attention to your 401k
Jobs gave us tools to change us and the world for the betterment of all mankind. Trump is a disgusting, despicable and dangerous man in the most powerful position in the world. Woz is often an unfiltered and guileless. He needs to think about what he says before unleashing these critical comments about a man
who made him a multimillionaire in spite of himself.
>Jobs gave us tools to change us and the world for the betterment of all mankind
WAT?.. It’s a phone dude …
Actually, it is Woz who is like Trump.
“Steve Wozniak has a history of making attention-grabbing comments”
And Trump also has a history of grabbing.