> Was the Woz really pushed aside or did he just make a poor timing decision when to
> bail out?
A little of both. Jobs cheated Woz out of a lot of money for designing Atari's Breakout discrete-logic board (the one Atari's engineers famously couldn't understand so they recreated it in a clunkier way), but there's no question that left to his own devices Woz would've created an unsellable Apple II.
Woz AFAIK has never been formally off the Apple employee list in the entire history of the company, but he's ignored it (by his choice) more than he's worked there. He was out basically from 1980 to 1985, came back to design ADB and lay out the architecture of the Apple IIgs, and then he was out again. (Jobs was pushed out by John Sculley around the same time, which likely influenced him).
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