iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon

I enjoyed reading iWoz. It was great to see how such a revolutionary person grew up.

I had fun reading "iWoz" as it was both educational and entertaining.

A must-read for all apple lovers.

It tells you the story of the man behind it all...

Wozniak gives us a book written for the juvenile mind but marketed to adults, recalling the glory days of his youth and telling us almost nothing about Apple after it grew beyond a home-based business. The presentation is avuncular, excessively colloquial, clownish and shallow. It is fundamentally an incoherent and dishonest book.

iWoz had me hooked from the first few pages. It's a unique opportunity to witness the birth of the personal computer revolution through the words of the guy who started it all. It has a lovely balance between the human story and the technical one. I wouldn't be surprised if I end up reading this again and again.

This book made me feel bad for Steve Wozniak. I realized, for the first time, that a lot of the actual work that we give Jobs credit for was actually the work carried out by poor little Wozniak. It's very evident that this is the story of an introvert genius who was both very lucky and very unlucky to have been friends with Jobs. Lucky because Apple could never have become Apple without Jobs, and unlucky because Jobs completely overshadowed Wozniak.

This book is interesting because it not only covers many of the little nuggets of corporate history that get forgotten, but also a peek into the freaky mind of a geek who created that cult product, the Mac.