In a recent interview given to an American publication, the co-founder Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),, Steve Wozniak, said like the first Macintosh produced by the Cupertino company was a poor product. Comparing it to Lisa, Wozniak claims that the Macintosh had to be a product that did not have the entire experience centered around the mouse and that 5 years of development were needed before it reached the market. The problems started when Steve Jobs joined the project, after several contradictory discussions with the CEO John Sculley, and the final result was not to Wozniak's liking.
The Macintosh should've been a whole different product, not a mouse-driven GUI machine like it was, and the Lisa, he should've just waited five years, and then it would've been ready. Steve really took over the [Macintosh] project when I had a plane crash and wasn't there," he said saying it was his opinion that Jobs wanted the Macintosh to "compete with the Lisa group that had kicked him out. what he did was he made a really weak, lousy computer, to tell you the truth, in the Macintosh, and still at a fairly high price. He made it by cutting the RAM down, by forcing you to swap disks here and there. It was a lousy product.
Taking over the Macintosh project after Wozniak was involved in a plane crash, Jobs wanted to bring a cheap product to market, and to satisfy his desire he reduced the Mac's RAM, which ultimately seriously affected the user experience and led Wozniak to declare it a bad product. The Macintosh was a failure, but after the departure of Steve Jobs from the Apple company, John Sculler managed to bring the Apple products back to the attention of the whole world, making them popular again.
Lately, Wozniak has criticized the Apple company and the late Steve Jobs at every opportunity, which he didn't do that often in the past.
