I was wondering; what events portrayed in the docudrama are verifiable to had happened; or at least, very well known. Since it clearly states at the end that some events were fictionalized for further dramatic effect; which will be effectively the same to ask as well how much of it was historically inaccurate, for that matter...
Very accurate. Wozniack confirmed this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lx9JsSTklI
You can also find a blog post he wrote about it on his website. He has also derided the new "jObs" movie as being relatively inaccurate and missing out on a number of key facts.
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Really? Woz liked this movie?
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Bill Gates stated (in reddit, if I remember right), that it was "fairly accurate" :)
Seems plausible enough for me.
Steve Jobs is an utter bastard for the duration of the film, from bullying his staff to not acknowledging his daughter, yet the man himself invited Noah Wyle to open an Apple event just months after the movie aired. He agree'd that he was not a very nice person in the early days.
Bill Gates was a ruthless, calculating schemer who created neither DOS or Windows but become the world's richest person, three decades later he is the world's biggest philanthropist donating billions to worthwhile causes every year.
Steve Jobs was an obsessive, self-important bully who could charm people but also make them aware of their place which was below him, three decades later he was regarded as the best boss anyone could work for and treated all his staff as equals.
I guess you needed a very strong selfish character in the 70's or the fledgling world of computing would swallow you up long before becoming the empire it is today. Jay Miner and Jack Tramiel of Commodore were good people, and they got pissed on.
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Great info. thanks a lot
The Are you virgin scene was really powerfull
raf-33. Well said. That is one of the better characterizations I've ever heard about those folks.
shareSteve jobs was not a nice person even towards the end take a look at the policies he changed Apple had started to donate he stopped this straight away the same with offering products at a fair price he didnt want any of this.
Staff wise the people who claim he treated them well was a select group only he was around towards the end of his life when he no longer had as much control.
The guy was all about himself.
Now on to Bill "donating billions to worthwhile causes every year." you cant be serious I suggest you really look into the gates foundation and what he has done with all this money he is suppose to be giving away he has done nothing to help people that really need it.
I have no issue with people doing some of what these two did but the way jobs treated people is unacceptable when these was the people who created what the company was he was a front man that was all so he was main face for marketing he offered nothign else yet he was gaining massively from it yet he screwed over the other people for what just $ and fame.
I am not even going to get in to the way he treated his family.
He got what he deserved in the end