Myth busted: Apple wasn’t found inside a garage, says Steve Wozniak

Revelations that came out from the tech company co-founder’s Reddit interview.

Lesser-known Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak sat down last month with Reddit for a video interview, and a more traditional AMA. Among the nuggets of wisdom that came out: the Apple Watch line-up is “too complicated”, and Apple’s garage origins is partly a myth.

There are a few hard-hitting questions in the AMA that ozniak took time to answer. The ongoing saga between Apple and the American government is at the front of everyone’s mind, and Woz didn’t pull punches: “Twice in my life I wrote things that could have been viruses. I threw away every bit of source code. I just got a chill inside. These are dangerous things, and if some code gets written in an Apple product that lets people in, bad people are going to find their way to it.” Woz also has praise for how Tim Cook is handling the company, saying that he’s continuing the “strong tradition that Steve Jobs was known for of making good products that help people do things they want to do in their life”. But he also thinks the Apple Watch line-up has f laws: while he wears an Apple Watch day-to-day, he complains about the number of products in the line-up: “Twenty watches from $500 to $1,100. The band’s the only difference?”

The biggest revelation comes at the beginning of the interview, however, where he dispels the “myth” that Apple was founded in a garage. It’s well worth a watch, and the AMA has some surprisingly candid information about how to start a company, and why he left Apple