Steve Jobs vs Steve Wozniak: Why is the Ex-CEO More Popular than the Genius Behind Apple Tech?

Urian B., Tech Times 22 October 2020, 01:10 am

It's a pretty widely acknowledged reality that Steve Jobs is one of the most popular people on earth due to what he did with Apple. However, Steve Jobs didn't start Apple on his own and it was actually Steve Wozniak who was in charge of coming up for the actual technology that Apple is built on.

So, why is Steve Jobs extremely popular even more than Steve Wozniak? Why does Steve Jobs have a number of documentaries and movies about him and what about Steve Wozniak? According to a certain post on Quora, there's actually a reason as to why Steve Wozniak is not as popular in comparison to Steve Jobs.

Why Steve Jobs over Steve Wozniak as the face of Apple?

A particular Joe Shelton who previously worked for Apple Computer Product Marketing back in 1979-1992 and a published writer for the HuffPost, Apple News, and Forbes, posted a short article on Quora detailing the difference between the two Steves of Apple.

According to the post, Joe was able to work at Apple from the year 1979 to 1992 and was reportedly "lucky enough" to be able to have worked along with Woz and Steve in the known Macintosh development group. It was reportedly stated that they were both very different people in regards to both their personality as well as what they actually brought to the company.

What was Steve Wozniak like and what was Steve Jobs like?

Woz was said to be a technical genius and just like most of the engineers, he would reportedly work head down designing. Joe stated that he never had the impression that he was actually particularly interested in getting any form of general recognition. Joe then stated that once Apple had gone public, Woz then actually started becoming interested in certain things aside from Apple.

Joe Shelton then differentiated Woz from Jobs saying that Jobs, on the other hand, is reportedly very recognized for the things that the consumers are undoubtedly aware of. He was said to be a product person who very quickly understood exactly what the markets would either like or what they wouldn't.

It was stated that he also received even more recognition by the very simple fact that he started Apple back on the road to recovery and was able to help bring Apple back from the dimming brink of disaster and even became both the "voice and persona of Apple".

According to an article by CNBC, Steve Wozniak stated that Steve Jobs' personality changed from the young goofing-off guy to the turtleneck wearing CEO we all remember him as ever since he became the founder of "a company with big money". Apparently, Steve Jobs was very different when they first started the company.