The replies are interesting indeed:

>Actually, Jobs was not fired. He could have been well funded to develop any product, even something like the NeXT, right at Apple. He was removed from running Macintosh because he had no good constructive ideas that were needed to save the company. He felt that some small adjustments in pricing, and diverting funds from our revenue source, the Apple ][, would make the Macintosh an instant success. The Macintosh was great and was the future in the eyes of those who displaced Jobs. But it was time to be adult and realistic. Hard work to build a Macintosh market would be needed. I’m sad too that the Macintosh wouldn’t sell just on its own.

Jobs supposedly erroneously sabotages the cash cow. Job leaves, thank god. Everything is honky dory because Woz is still there? It sounds to me a bit like Woz is wishing for something that didn't quite pan out like that

Things were fine for a while, mac started making money, Woz got into a plane crash and reevaluated his life, left apple and went back to school.