It's sort of like texas holdem. You can play your cards the right way and fold on the flop, then the river comes and it turns out you would have won if you stayed in the game and played 'foolishly'.
If his role was to be a tie-breaker vote when Jobs and Woz couldn't agree on a next move, then it is true that there's no way to know in retrospect how that might have affected the company's fortune for better or worse, esp. considering all the ups and downs Apple has gone through. We see Apple as a big success now, but that was hardly a forgone conclusion twenty years ago.
Finnucane|7 years ago