Success Quote by Steve Wozniak

Wozniak’s line lands like a shrug, which is exactly the point: history’s “revolutions” often look less like solitary lightning bolts and more like a crowded weather system. By naming the Commodore and the Tandy TRS-80 right after the Apple II, he quietly rewrites the myth of the lone genius company changing everything. The Apple II matters, sure, but it’s immediately placed in a relay race where competitors grab the baton and sprint in parallel.

The intent feels less like bragging than calibration. Wozniak, the engineer’s engineer, is signaling that what made the early personal computer boom real wasn’t a single iconic machine, but the sudden availability of multiple, plausible options. That’s how a market becomes a culture: not one product people admire from afar, but several products people can actually buy, hack, argue about, and choose between.

There’s subtext in the sequencing. “After” doesn’t mean “because.” It suggests that Apple II’s arrival helped open a door, but it also implies inevitability: once the components were cheap enough and the appetite was there, competitors were going to show up fast. The mention of Commodore and Tandy also nods to different retail pathways and audiences (electronics hobbyists, mall shoppers, families), hinting that the PC didn’t enter America through one gate.

Context matters: late-1970s computing was a frontier turning into an industry. Wozniak’s matter-of-fact roll call is a reminder that democratizing technology is rarely a clean origin story; it’s a pileup of near-simultaneous bets that finally makes the future feel purchasable.