I think Woz got bamboozled because he wanted to believe.
It's an easy trap to fall in - haven't we all gotten too emotionally involved in something at some point?
The difference is that LaserDisk worked as advertised.
Laserdisc was the bomb. And I miss mine.
Only after Pioneer purchased the IP from DiscoVision Associates (the joint MCA-IBM venture) did the system approximate what the average Joe consumer would consider "working". I'd say some time around the introduction of the CLD-900, so 1985 or thereabouts.
looks at all the crypto and then LLM hype
Nah.
He was part of the efforce /$WOZX coin, especially during launch