Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Talks About Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs’ fellow Apple co-founder, Steve Wozniak has tearfully remembered the late visionary in a news clip this week.
“I was so stunned,” said Wozniak in an interview with AP.
The filmed interview revealed that Wozniak had received a phone call at home from a reporter asking if he had heard the news about Jobs. Wozniak said he knew immediately what the reporter meant.
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“It was just a total shock, like what do you say? It’s like the world lost a John Lennon,” said the 61-year-old computer engineer and programmer.
The comparison of Jobs’ death to former Beatles band member John Lennon falls right in line with a quote belonging to Jobs.
“My model for business is the Beatles,” Jobs once said. “They were four guys who kept each other’s negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum parts. And that’s how I see business. Great things in business are never done by one person; they are done by a team of people.”
Celebrities, politicians, Apple fans, and people across the globe have expressed their grief over the death of Steve Jobs, who was the face of disputably the most innovative technology company in the world. Jobs died peacefully in his home after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.
Of his business partner, Wozniak said Jobs “had the ability to think out new ways of doing things, not just ways to improve what we have, do a better version of something, but do it in a totally different way that the world would swing towards.”
Recollecting fun memories, Wozniak described Jobs as being energetic and ambitious, and reflected on the fun they had while starting Apple in 1976 together.
Shortly after Jobs took medical leave from Apple, Wozniak visited his friend, and of the visit, he told AP that Jobs looked unwell and sounded weak.
Pancreatic cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer deaths, and Jobs had been diagnosed with it in 2004. After undergoing a liver transplant in 2009, the former CEO took another leave of absence, and then resigned from Apple in August of this year.
“We’ve lost something we won’t get back,” said Wozniak about Jobs. “The way I see it, though, the way people love products he put so much into creating means be brought a lot of life into the world.”
Steve Jobs’ funeral took place in private on Friday.
