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"At this point in his life, Jobs was a nobody and without Wozniak, he would probably still be a nobody."

I have to disagree here. While Jobs might not have been a tech giant without Woz (then again, he might...NeXT, Pixar, new Apple all happened without Woz), I'm as certain as I can be that the man would have been famous no matter what. Possibly as a cult leader, a music promoter, or a politician, but famous somehow.

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We'll never really know. I would love to watch that movie though.

Also I didn't mean to use "nobody" as an insult. There's nothing wrong with being a nobody. The majority of people who lived were nobody but without them we would have nothing today.

>NeXT, Pixar, new Apple all happened without Woz

Yes, but they probably wouldn't have happened if it weren't for "old Apple". Thus Woz still gets some credit for Jobs' success in other fields.

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