Amaya Toman In January 1997, one of its co-founders, Steve Wozniak, returned to Apple. He was supposed to act in an advisory position in the company, and on this occasion he met Steve Jobs years later on the same stage - the meeting took place at the Macworld Expo conference. The announcement that Wozniak - although not directly as an employee - is returning to Apple was heard by the visitors only at the very end of the conference.
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The re-arrival of Steve Wozniak at Apple occurred in the same year when Steve Jobs returned after a break at NeXT. The two Steves worked together at Apple for the last time in 1983. However, Wozniak was most intensively involved in Apple in the days when the Apple II computer was created, back when Apple was not a technological giant. Although Jobs allegedly wanted Wozniak's influence in the company to grow a little more significantly, Woz preferred to invest the money earned at Apple in his new activities - for example, he managed to finally get his dream university degree in computer technology, organize a couple spectacular music festivals, fly your own plane, but perhaps also start a family and devote yourself to it properly.
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When Woz partially returned to the company in 1997, his beloved Apple II product line had been off course for some time, and Apple's computer production consisted of Macintoshes. The company as such was not really doing well at the time, but the meeting of its two co-founders for many people from the ranks of laymen and the public foreshadowed the glimmer of better times. Jobs originally returned to Apple as a "bonus" to the purchased NeXT, he was supposed to provide the company with a new operating system and, together with Wozniak, act as an unofficial adviser to then-CEO Gil Amelia. But things took a completely different turn in the end. Steve Jobs eventually completely replaced Amelia in his leadership position.
The moment Jobs and Wozniak stood side by side on stage at the Macworld Expo, the huge contrast between Jobs and Amelie was on full display. Gil Amelio has never been a very good speaker - before introducing the two co-founders, he spoke for hours in a rather dull manner. In addition, his plans for the triumphant finale were somewhat spoiled by Jobs himself, who refused to fully participate in the scene. "He mercilessly ruined the final moment I had planned," Amelio later complained.
However, Wozniak's comeback was short-lived. Although he brought fresh wind to Apple in the form of new thoughts and ideas, such as a proposal for more intensive targeting of the educational market, Jobs saw the future of the company more in his own "one man show" than in a balanced duet. After Amelio left his leadership position in July, Jobs had Wozniak call to tell him he no longer needed him in the advisory role. As callous and "typically Jobsian" as this move may seem, it turned out to be the right thing to do. Jobs very quickly proved to the world that he would stand up at the head of the company even after the crisis, and Wozniak admitted that he did not agree with him on some things, so his departure was beneficial for the company: "To be honest, I was never fully enthusiastic about iMacs," he said Wozniak later. “I had my doubts about their design. Their colors were stolen from me and I didn't think they would look that good. In the end, it turned out that I'm simply not the right customer," he admitted.
Source: Cult of Mac
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