jww@bonnie.UUCP (Joel West) (02/08/85)
Wall Street Journal (So. Calif. edition), Feb 7, p. 44:
Apple Computer Co-Founder Wozniak
Will Leave Firm, Citing Disagreements
CUPERTINO, Calif. - Steve Wozniak,
the brilliant maverick co-founder of Apple
Computer Inc., is leaving the company he
helped start in a Silicon Valley garage
eight years ago.
Mr. Wozniak said he will remain on Ap-
ple's payroll as an engineering consultant,
but that he will be devoting most of his
time to a new venture, developing
home-video equipment.
He said his departure was prompted in
part by bitter disagreements with Apple's
management over the company's direction
and by frustration with the rigidity of a big
corporate bureaucracy.
...
Mr Wozniak said the Apple II, which
was responsible for the company's instant
success, "has been ignored in the hope that
it will die and go away ..."
John Sculley, Apple's president and
chief executive officer, would only say in
prepared statement that the Apple II fam-
ily of computers "are a mainstay of Ap-
ple's busines and will continue to be a
very high priority in years ahead."
[Translation: "It's a cash cow." -- Ed.]
...
... "I want to go back to the garage where you
don't have to fill out a dozen forms to get something
done," [Wozniak said.] ...
... [Wozniak] is one of the company's
largest shareholders, with 4% of its stock
valued at about $70 million...
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