First off, I don't care about computers or engineering. I'm also not a Apple whore. That being said, I loved the book. Wozniak is cool dude with a ton of brains. I don't agree with everyone accusing him of being arrogant. The guy is passionate about what he does, and the rest of the world can kiss his ass.

Wozniak begins when he was a kid just crazy about electronics. He, along with his friends, built an intercom system connecting their houses. That's every kid's dream when they're in elementary school. The coolest part is you can still feel that child's energy and curiosity radiating from him. And he keeps this going all the way through soul-crushing adulthood and three iMarriages later.

He's not a writer, so I never expected anything too high level. The tone of the book is conversational. This works best considering his story deals with engineering concepts that are complicated.

iWoz is the final word on how Apple started and his friendship with Steve Jobs, who is sort of an asshole. My only gripe is Wozniak continually brings up how it's always right to do the right thing, but his moral declaration seems empty when he completely avoids the topic of the deplorable working conditions of overseas factories that manufacture Apple products.

Does anyone remember reading about the suicide nets, explosions, and workers getting poisoned? For me this became the elephant in the "book."

Regardless, I had a lot of fun reading a first-hand account by the father of the personal computer revolution. Now, off to look at internet porn.

I am not an Apple fan boy. I liked this book.

I agree with most other reviewers who claim that this book does sound a bit braggy, i know it all types but hey, it is Steve Woz! I also agree that the writing style is not very literary but again, the co author has left it the way Woz would probably talk. This book doesnt claim to be a literary masterpiece nor is it lining up for the Booker/Pulitzer. Try Orhan Pamuk or Salman Rushdie if all you want is literariness. This is a book for Engineers/Technologist/Inventors. If you are looking for anything else in this book, you can as well read the reviews of others and forget this book - those reviews will just do.

If you are interested in technology, there is no way you will find this book unimpressive. Steve Woz's love for technology, innovation and electronics/computers is really contagious! He has been very frank about most things he has described - now if he is a super achiever, let's not blame him for that!

All in all, i loved this book because i got to know some insights about Apple and the REAL guy behind it all.

This is really a wonderful book. Truly inside perspective of the man who invented the personal computer. This book shows that curiosity, tinkering, experimentation, a purpose and passion for wanting to create something no one else had ever created, is the path to personal fulfillment and success. Additionally WOZ is just a great guy, with a kind heart, and integrity to match. We need more of this type of great leader!

I wonder what it would be like to read the autobiography of Sheldon Cooper? Of course, Woz did vastly more than Sheldon ever did and he was real. Still that type of mind is definitely there even if it is aimed toward engineering instead of physics. If you want a juicy story, this isn't it. If you want to track an unabashed genius and don't mind some fairly dull detours, then this is quite a good book to read to gain an understanding of the keyboard I'm typing on and the screen you are likely reading this on.

I suspect you better be interested in the subject or be, like me, something like Sheldon or Brick to appreciate this book. It is in its own way very honest. It is an assessment of a very important life by the man who lived it.

Steve Wozniak is the guy who made Steve Jobs. You never would have heard of Jobs if it wasn't for Woz, but most assuredly you would have heard of Woz. ...

Saying that, this is a brief feel-good piece about having accomplished something. This is not a blow-by-blow account of Apple or the man Woz. For instance, Woz designs and builds the first two Apple computers (alone) culminating in the company being created. He then disappears from the halls of Apple without much detail. He also happens to have had four wives. He does state that there's not a handbook on ex-wives jokingly, but more realistically he should be asking about a handbook on relationships.

In the end, we really don't need the gritty details of his personal life. He extols the virtue of being an engineer, being an introvert and how nothing good comes of committee designed projects (see also Susan Cain's Quiet which covers the differences between introverts (who create innovation) and extroverts (who mainly are challenged in the innovation department.)

Look elsewhere for the sordid tidbits on Apple and its rise. For the man who brought us the US festival and the first functional and marketed home computer with a monitor, that's all he needs to be remembered for. He did it.

Gosh dang. This was a tough read. I was excited to read this book and be inspired to become a great engineer, but this guy's ego came across a little strong in this book. But then again, he's an engineer and he didn't get his job for his great interpersonal skills. That being said, the book could have been written better. I appreciated his backstory about where he came from and how he became an engineer in the first place. But he seems to paint an unrealistic picture of engineering in general, making it seem like some mystical unachievable level of genius that you need to basically be the next Elon Musk to understand.

Also, it seems like some of his facts about Apple might be a little sketchy. There's some pretty obvious feelings behind this book that make it a little...awkward?

Highly recommended for anyone interested into the mind-sight of a hacker(Steve Wozniak). Please note, that when I mention "hacker" I mean a highly creative person who is good at computers/programming or building stuff in general. Also gives information about the early days at Apple Computers.

Holy crap, this book was bad. Great history of computers and great on engineering but terribly written.

Woz may be a genius engineer, but writes like a 3rd grader. Humans are not computers. You do not need to input information into humans like you are writing code. He constantly repeats himself as though we forgot what he wrote 10 pages before. Additionally, I get it's an autobiography, but never have I read so many I, me, and my's in one book...especially when combined with the adjectives of good, great, and amazing.

I would hate to have a conversation with this guy.

Woz...One hell of a big ego, almost too mich to bear.

Although this book is an interesting glimpse at the early Apple days and the Apple I and II, many of Woz's claims did not ring true for me.

I was with Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) from 1973 to 1983 (2nd largest computer company at the time) and many of the "1sts. or breaktgroughs" claimed by Woz had been already done by DEC and others.

In my opinion, Apple' s world game-changer was the Lisa. Its graphics windows user interface and its subsequent use on the Mac completely changed how humans interact with computers.

I was working at DEC's home office in the early 80's as we were struggling with creating a common user interface. When I saw the Lisa announced and demoed at a Philadelphia computer conference I reported.back to DEC that I had seen the future and its name was Lisa.

I stated that when the price could be reduced from $10,000 to the $3k level that it would sell in volume, and it did with the GUI implemented on the Macintosh.

Microsoft Windows 95 lagged way behind when launched at a later date, never to catch up with the elegance of the Mac. (I bought the first model) It was my 2nd PC, DEC's Robin being the first. And, of course there was DEC's PDP 8, having most of the features in the late 60s that Woz claims to have invented. Remember that one?

This (mp3 in my case) book is an interesting story of Apple and its early computers, but is primarily an inside look at Apple co-founder Steve Wozniack's significant technical and prank talents, personality and view of life by his not so humble self.

There are many bright engineers and many good ideas. Those who happen to succeed the first time around forget that with all the other ingredients equal, what makes 90% of the difference in becoming rich and successful is timing and luck. Woz is smart not smarter, but his main component of success was that he was lucky at the right time. And had the $ and ego to prove it. OK for a speed-read and then toss it. Yuk.

Steve Wozniak is one of my heros. He's a brilliant engineer who changed the world just by doing what he loved to do and doing it well. His sense of humor is legendary and wonderful. I love me some Woz.

So I pre-ordered iWoz as soon as I heard about it and couldn't wait for the Amazon box to arrive at my door.

Boy was I disappointed. The writing for this book is atrocious. It uses small words and basic, repetitive sentence structure. It's boring to read. The stories are interesting but definitely needed the skills of a professional writer. iWoz actually has a "with Gina Smith" writing credit, so I don't know what happened.

I didn't even finish the book. Every sentence is mind-numbing and I just couldn't do it anymore.

Ah well. In the end, Woz has a little bit of my money which he can use to buy another Segway. I'm okay with that. I'm just a little disappointed.

It's surprising: I always considered myself a fan of Steve Wozniak, until I read his autobiography. It reads like if it was written by a very naïve 13-year old boy, for readers at the same age. The language is awful, with very repetitive expressions, the amount of time spent on describing "pranks" is annoying, and even the attempts of describing the few real technical innovations from Woz are unreadable (he can't make the description of the disk drive interface simple enough for a layperson, nor interesting enough for someone with a technical background).

Wozniak is very self-centered and never acknowledges the contributions of others: according to him he did everything first and better than anyone else, which is simply not true. For example, you can't talk about a keyboard connected to a domestic TV capable of saving data in cassette tapes without mentioning pioneering works like for example 1973's TV Typewriter project from Dan Lancaster. The entire Blue Box story should be about Captain Crunch, but Wozniak writes as if he had basically created the entire Phreaking scene. His crude Apple BASIC interpreter was vastly inferior to everything at the time, not some "amazing innovation".

He was a talented hardware designer that took a few good decisions back in the 1970s, and he was good at optimizing projects to use fewer chips, but he wasn't so fundamental to the microcomputer revolution as people (including myself) used to think.

I'm very disappointed. There's a lot of good books about the microcomputer revolution: Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, The Soul of a New Machine, Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World, even The Ultimate History of Video Games: From Pong to Pokemon - The Story Behind the Craze That Touched Our Lives and Changed the World and Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture. This is not one of them, unfortunately.

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