“I was an engineer at HP designing the iPhone 5 of the time,” he says

Jan 21, 2014 09:35 GMT  ·  By

It’s no mystery that Ashton Kutcher’s JOBS isn’t exactly faithful to reality, but Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak apparently can’t take it anymore. Half a year after the movie debuted to negative reviews, the Apple 1 creator decided to break the silence.

Wozniak has never been a fan of Mark Hulme's JOBS biopic, but he has always turned his diplomatic cheek when faced with inquiries about the movie and how he saw it. Not anymore, though.

In a comment on Google+, the genius behind Apple’s first computers lashes out.

“Actually, the movie was largely a lie about me. I was an engineer at HP designing the iPhone 5 of the time, their scientific calculators. I had many friends and a good reputation there,” Wozniak writes.

As far as the movie character goes, he is portrayed as a shy, at times dumb, sidekick to the Almighty Jobs.

“My Pong game got him his job at Atari but he never was an engineer or programmer,” Wozniak relays, talking about his late friend and business partner.

Most people think Jobs took Woz to the Homebrew Computer Club to try and make him see the potential of the personal computer when, in fact, it was the other way around, according to Wozniak.

“I was a regular member at the Homebrew Computer Club from day one and Jobs didn't know it existed. He was up in Oregon then. I'd take my designs to the meetings and demonstrate them and I had a big following. I wasn't some guy nobody talked to, although I was shy in social settings,” he says.

“Others in the club had working models of this computer before Jobs knew it existed. He came down one week and I took him to show him the club, not the reverse. He saw it as a businessman. It [w]as I who told Jobs the good things these machines could do for humanity, not the reverse.”

He goes on to mention that he was the one listening to Bob Dylan when he and Jobs first crossed their paths. In the movie, Jobs is the Dylan fan and Woz is a Beatles fan.

Woz concludes, saying, “Jobs didn't have that success at Apple until the iPod, although OS X deserves the credit too. These sorts of things people would have wanted to see, about Jobs or about Apple, but the movie gives other images of what was behind it all and none add up.”

Still want to see the movie? Didn’t think so.