Editing Steve Wozniak (section)

===Final departure from Apple workforce===
Even with the success he had helped to create at Apple, Wozniak believed that the company was hindering him from being who he wanted to be, and that it was "the bane of his existence".<ref name="Flatow" /> He enjoyed engineering, not management, and said that he missed "the fun of the early days".<ref name="wozemployee"/> As other talented engineers joined the growing company, he no longer believed he was needed there.<ref name="iWoz" /> By early 1985, Wozniak left Apple again and sold most of his stock.<ref name="rice19850415"/> Media coverage attributed his departure to disagreements with Apple management, quoting his statement that Apple had "been going in the wrong direction for the last five years",<ref name="rice19850415"/> but Wozniak later objected to this portrayal and stated that he left primarily because he was excited to start [[CL 9]] and recapture the fun of developing a new technology.<ref name="iWoz" />{{rp|page=266|quote=So I made some comments like this, and then the reporter asked, "So that's the reason you're leaving?" And I said, point-blank, "Oh no, that's not the reason. I'm leaving because I want to do this remote control." But the Wall Street Journal printed the article suggesting I was mad at Apple and that was the reason I was leaving.}}

The Apple II platform financially carried the company well into the Macintosh era of the late 1980s;<ref name="rice19850415"/> it was made semi-portable with the [[Apple IIc]] of 1984, and was extended, with some input from Wozniak, by the [[16-bit computing|16-bit]] [[Apple IIGS]] of 1986, and was discontinued altogether when the [[Apple IIe]] was discontinued on November 15, 1993 (although the [[Apple IIe Card|Apple IIe card]], which allowed compatible Macintosh computers to run Apple II software and use certain Apple II peripherals, was produced until May 1995).