What I will say that if Apple is what Woz feared. Then what's OpenAI and X/Grok and Google and Facebook (hell bench on world domination)? Unimaginable?
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Apple helped create the black rectangle monolith appliances-in-a-smartphone plague. But they are not even in the top 10 list of companies I'm currently worried about. They are far more embarrassing than dangerous as of late.
Apple is privacy focused because it's a lifestyle and tech fashion company that competes with internet data brokers. Apple's instincts for monopoly power, locking down the market and choking life out of their complements is second to none.
Given the opportunity, all successful tech CEOs are bred and selected to burn the world down if the result is aligned to their power goals.
From what it looks like, the difficulty shouldn't be in getting a board made or soldering them, but sourcing the parts. Other than the odd 74 series ICs, the design includes some (I think memory?) chips that are nowadays more difficult to find than the 6502 & 6520.
Based on historical records, the evidence suggests that only less than 150 to 200 Apple-1 computers were ever made and the assembly team was Wozniak who did most technical assembly, with help from Daniel Kottke, Patty Jobs (Steve's sister), and occasional friends.
Also....the actual video title is: "The Finest Operational Apple-1 Computer in Existence - Handmade by Steve Jobs - Is Now at Sotheby's" an even more wild claim. Then editorialized here to be called in the title of this submission: " Apple-1 Computer, handmade by Jobs and Woz"
The video has low credibility, and changing the title wont change that.
Jobs role has always been reported as business/sales focused rather than hands-on assembly.
[And literally almost physically colliding into Tim Cook in Los Altos where Garage Technology Ventures used to be.]
[If you need someone important ran into accidentally, I guess that's about my only natural talent.]
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