Steve Wozniak attacks Steve Jobs biopic
Source: Guardian
The Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has issued a stinging criticism of the new biopic of his fellow computing pioneer, the late Steve Jobs, after a clip from the film was released on the internet before its premiere at the Sundance film festival.
The clip shows actors Ashton Kutcher (as Jobs) and Josh Gad (as Wozniak) discussing the merits of the computer operating system Wozniak has just developed. Jobs is seen trying to inspire a sceptical Wozniak as to the potential future impact of home computers, before the Wozniak character shouts: "Nobody wants to buy a computer. Nobody!"
However, Wozniak, 62, in a series of messages posted on the Gizmodo website where the clip first played, said the portrayal was "not close". "We never had such interaction," he wrote. Denying the accuracy of the scene he also stated: "I'm not even sure what it's getting at ... personalities are very wrong."
Wozniak, who is known in the tech community as "Woz", also implied that far from Jobs being the inspirational leader, at that time it was far more probable that Jobs was learning from Wozniak about the possibilities of personal computing.
His idea was to make a $20 PC board and sell it for $40 to help people at the club build the computer I'd given away. He always saw a way to make a quick buck off my designs."
Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jan/26/steve-wozniak-steve-jobs-biopic
I'm sure this movie will be taken as a history class by many kids
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On one hand, he has spoken up quietly a few times about the fact that he's not exactly an Apple fanboy. He's not thrilled with the way the company is run, and readily admits to using both Apple and Android mobile devices...stating more than once that each platform is superior to the other in different ways. He's also an advocate of ending the war between Android and iOS, and making the platforms inter-operable (he differed sharply from Jobs on that point...Jobs wanted an Apple "victory" so that iOS would remain the dominant platform, while Woz has long been an advocate of diversity in technology, open platforms, and global interoperability).
On the other hand, Woz created Apple, and has always been hesitant to oppose it strongly because it IS still his creation (he was once quoted as saying something along the lines of Apple being like a "poorly behaved adult child...you may be disappointed in their choices and the way they are living their life, but you never stop caring about them"
. He's also still a stockholder and derives income from Apple, and doesn't want to undermine it (Woz notably didn't become nearly as rich as Jobs, because Woz famously gave much of his original ownership stake away to friends, family, and early employees, so where Jobs was worth about $30 billion when he died, Woz's wealth is "only" in the millions).
Still, Woz has a reputation for speaking the truth, no matter the fallout. If he's worried about blowback, he's more apt to say nothing at all, than to say something to placate the press. If he says that the script is inaccurate, I tend to believe him.
That's a bit of an exaggeration:
Apple w/o Jobs:
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Got nuthin against Wozniak. Jobs wasn't exactly perfect, but the pics say it all as to his business acumen.
Sorry but money is not the point... at least not to me. And the graph is as indicative of a financial climate that needed advertising strength and a lot of empty hope. With or without Jobs, it could very well have done the same. Nothing against Jobs but he was not an innovator, he was a product pusher (could have been corn flakes) and a rather unethical businessman.
Hmmm.... maybe I do have something against Jobs.
