"I wanted to get that out for a long time," Wozniak said in an interview. "iWoz" briefly addresses the comeback of the company, calling Jobs' return as chief executive officer "exactly what Apple needed." But Wozniak, who went on to start another company, teach, do philanthropic work and play polo on his Segway, mostly spends the book's 300 pages talking about his teenage friendship with Jobs and the events that led to the legendary start of Apple. The iPod holds 70 percent of the MP3 player market and helped make the company $4.37 billion in revenue during its most recent quarter. The narrative, co-written with journalist Gina Smith, comes as Apple, largely written off as dead during the mid-1990s, rides high on the success of its iPod digital media player and new line of Intel-based Macintosh computers. Some of these stories are being told publicly for the first time in Wozniak's autobiography, "iWoz: From Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple and Had Fun Doing It," which arrives in bookstores today. And naturally they would dissect technology, from telephone systems to early video games to the first incarnations of the Apple computer. The two also pulled numerous pranks, at one point winding up in the back seat of a police car and talking their way out of getting arrested.
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