Woz put up a serious fight to make the Apple II as powerful as possible.
Jobs wanted it to be as cheap as possible. Jobs planned to sell two expansion cards, so the Apple II only only needed two expansion slots. Woz refused to hobble the machine when he could easily make it have seven expansion slots.
The Apple II had seven, and within a year there was a flourishing third party market providing all sorts of expansion options.
The Apple II was the last product where Woz had any serious amount of input and (if you had any interest in technology) it was Apple's peak.
> Woz put up a serious fight to make the Apple II as powerful as possible.
A fight for user experience. Woz is the ultimate hacker advocate and he understood the II was a hacker's computer. Jobs was the ultimate common-person advocate. The Mac was the ultimate common-person computer.
And yes, the Jobs/Wozniak equilibrium is my favorite period for Apple. The II is still my favorite computer.
Jobs wanted it to be as cheap as possible. Jobs planned to sell two expansion cards, so the Apple II only only needed two expansion slots. Woz refused to hobble the machine when he could easily make it have seven expansion slots.
The Apple II had seven, and within a year there was a flourishing third party market providing all sorts of expansion options.
The Apple II was the last product where Woz had any serious amount of input and (if you had any interest in technology) it was Apple's peak.