This Slate article makes the point that The Woz wanted computers that were open and gave user tons of option for working with them. (Like the Apple][ through //e.)
It further makes the point that Jobs has won the battle of closed, easy to use computers verses what Woz wanted.
One early paragraph reads:
Apple is a schizophrenic company, a self-professed revolutionary that is closely allied with establishment forces like the entertainment conglomerates and the telecommunications industry. To understand this contradiction we need to look back to Apple’s origins. Let’s go back to a day in 1971 when we find a bearded young college student in thick eyeglasses named Steve Wozniak hanging out at the home of Steve Jobs, then in high school. The two young men, electronics buffs, were fiddling with a crude device they’d been working on for more than a year. That day was their eureka moment: Apple’s founders had managed to hack AT&T’s long-distance network. Their invention was a “blue box” that made long-distance phone calls for free. The two men, in other words, got started by defrauding the firm that is now perhaps Apple’s most important business partner.
Later:
Wozniak’s ethic of openness also extended to disclosing design specifications. In a 2006 talk at Columbia University, he put the point this way: “Everything we knew, you knew.” To point out that this is no longer Apple’s policy is to state the obvious.
Then about Jobs:
Steve Jobs’ ideas have always been in tension with Wozniak’s brand of idealism and the founding principles of Apple. Jobs maintained the early, countercultural image that he and Wozniak created, but beginning with the Macintosh in the 1980s, and accelerating through the iPhone and climaxing with the iPad’s release this month, he has taken Apple on a fundamentally different track, one that is, in fact, nearly the opposite of the Wozniak vision.
There is a lot more about the history of Apple and it makes a good read, even if it is, or perhaps because it is from a different point of view.
See it here: http://www.slate.com/id/2249872/pagenum/all/#p2
