Steve Jobs 'played no role at all' in designing the Apple I or Apple II computers, Woz says

There are two new movies about Steve Jobs about to hit theaters, but if you want to know how things really went down, talk to the man in the center of the action, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.

14-year-old entrepreneur Sarina Khemchandani did just that, scoring an interview with Woz in late August.

There was, if you remember, some controversy surrounding how the Ashton Kutcher "Jobs" movie portrayed Jobs' involvement in the design and development of Apple's first products.

So Khemchandani asked Woz what role Jobs played with those efforts.

Short answer: None.

Woz had been designing computers since he was in high school, he told Khemchandani, coming up with ingenious ways to create computers with fewer and fewer parts. The first Apple computers, including the Apple II, were designed by Woz before he ever met Jobs, he said:

Wozniak talks about this at about 3:42 in the video below. He told the famous story of how he and Jobs met, too (at 2:33). You can watch the video below: 

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