• Jobs is a 2013 American biographical drama film inspired by the life of Steve Jobs, from 1974 while a student at Reed College to the introduction of the iPod in 2001.
• Here is what Jobs family, friends and ex colleagues think of the Steve Jobs movie, plus our own review, and 21 things you need to know about the new Steve Jobs film.
• Steve Jobs (born as Steven Paul Jobs /
• Directed by Paul Sen. With Steve Jobs, Robert X. A conversation with Steve Jobs as he was running NeXT, the company he had founded after leaving Apple.

Steve Jobs movie review: 'An injustice has been done'The new Steve Jobs hit a selection of cinemas in the US on 9 October 2. October, while UK cinema goers will be able to catch the new Steve Jobs film from 1. November. However, we were lucky enough to see the movie at a screening in early October, and we have included our review of the Steve Jobs movie in this article. Hi-Def 5 To 7 (2015) Movie. We were very excited about the new movie but our enthusiasm was dampened somewhat when we discovered that it is  an inaccurate portrayal of events - and we are sticklers for the true story. We also feel that Jobs is portrayed ! The new Steve JObs fil currently has an IMDb rating of 7. Android fan boys are voting for it!)Either way, it’s not proving to be a hit with US audiences.

According to Mac. Rumours the film has been pulled from more than 2,0. US after flopping at the Box Office, although that site is suggesting it might be re- released again nearer the Oscars.

Directed by Danny Boyle. With Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen, Jeff Daniels. Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution, to paint a. How Jobs met Woz. Jobs and Woz (that's Steve Wozniak) were introduced in 1971 by a mutual friend, Bill Fernandez, who went on to become one of Apple's.

In the second weekend the movie made 6. We think that the issue with the movie is that the team behind it didn’t appreciate their market. With so many Apple fans around the world the film could have been a real hit – if it hadn’t portrayed the story in such a negative light. For those who are less likely to feel that an injustice has been done, in what is essentially a character assassination, perhaps it will be seen as a good story. Read on for our review of the movie, and to find out what the people who were actually there at the time think of the Steve Jobs film..

Steve Jobs film: UK release date. We have had it confirmed that the new Steve Jobs movie writen by Aaron Sorkin and directed by Danny Boyle will be in UK cinemas from Friday 1. November. That's just over a month after the film started showing in the US. In the US the film hit 8. Friday 9 October before roling out to all cinemas on 2. October. Macworld UK's review of the Steve Jobs film.

It’s not that I’m such a fan of Apple that I don’t want to know about the nasty side of Jobs. I had first hand experience of what the man was like (I was once pushed out of the way by him when he wanted to show Alicia Keys how to use i.

Tunes). Also, knowing people who have worked at Apple over the years, I am well aware of the fear and panic that being caught in a lift with him (or elevator if you are in the US) would cause. I’m well aware that Jobs wasn’t known for his soft side. And yet we all know that the man had many achievements.

That he lead a revolution that has got us to where we are today. Sure he used other people’s expertise to recognize his dreams, but dream them he did. He led the orchestra that created the products that he is famed for.

With all this in mind, I was disappointed in the Steve Jobs movie. Partly because as an Apple expert I watched the film in dismay as events were pulled out of context and people appeared in locations and at times where they simply wouldn’t have been around. I can’t help but think that in his desire to avoid the chronological retelling or Steve Jobs story, a traditional childhood to death epic, in favour of three acts (which would be better suited to a theatrical production) Aaron Sorkin constrained himself too much. The only way he could tell the story was to pull events from all corners of Jobs’ life and present them as if they had happened in the 3. Hence we have Steve Jobs (portrayed by Michael Fassbender) washing his feet in a toilet minutes before going on stage to announce the Macintosh.

Sure, Jobs was known to have done this, but not at this stage in his story! Apparently Sorkin had read the Walter Isaacson biography but he had no trouble deciding to shuffle around events – it’s a wonder he didn’t have him getting high before the launch of the Ne. Xt computer of something. There are so many examples of events being taken out of context that I could practically repeat the whole plot of the movie in this article, but I won’t do that, just in case you actually want to watch it. Another constraint of Sorkin’s model for presenting Steve Jobs’ story is to have him interacting with the same six people at each of these 3.

As if in the run up to a keynote presentation Jobs would be spending his time speaking to various people from his past. Even if you suspend disbelief at the fact that he is talking to people at the time one would imagine he would be tearing around backstage shouting at people to get things working, or running through the script, the fact that some of the people are even there at those moments in time is factually incorrect. Take Jobs and the other co- founder of Apple, Steve Wozniak, played by Seth Rogan. Woz is there at the launch of the Mac in 1. Steve Jobs goes on stage to talk Ne.

XT computers during the wilderness years, and even more randomly (since in real life he no longer is working at Apple at this time) Woz is there at the launch of the i. Mac in 1. 99. 7. And you know what’s the most annoying thing about this – at each of these events, like a broken record Woz is asking Jobs to mention the Apple II team. Not only does this make him sound like a bit of an idiot, it’s such a shame for Woz to be presented in this light given that he actually worked as a consultant on the film – he was paid considerably for his efforts. It’s almost as if nobody listened to a word he said other than some comment he must have made about the Apple II. Another face that just keeps on popping up when he wouldn’t have been around is former (and somewhat disgraced) Apple CEO John Sculley (played by Jeff Daniels). There he is at the Mac, Ne.

XT and the i. Mac launch. Clearly he didn’t have anything better to do than stalk Jobs, the man he got fired. The reoccurrence of key characters throughout the plot, despite them not actually working at Apple also applies to a key character, Joanna Hoffman (played by Kate Winslet), who was at Jobs side before each of these keynotes. If you are aware of the actual story, she had left Apple long Jobs returned to launch the i. Mac. Just as an aside, I couldn’t help but think she actually looked younger by the end of the movie.

One particularly strange choice for a key character, I thought, was the focus on Andy Hertzfeld. Known as the . He was even credited with giving money to the father of Jobs’ daughter – the one Jobs denied paternity of. I’m really not sure of the accuracy of this. Jobs ex- partner Chrisaan Brennan and his daughter Lisa had a key part in Sorkin’s story that they never had in the Walter Isaacson biography.

With a frantic and unstable Chrisaan appearing before the first two Jobs om- stage appearances, to beg him for money. But the real tale being told is about Jobs’ relationship with his daughter Lisa. With much made of the fact that he  initially refused to accept her as his own despite a positive paternity test. Download Streaming Divx Movies The Visit (2015). Lisa had chosen not to speak to Isaacson when he was researching her father’s biography because she wasn’t comfortable talking about Jobs while he was still alive, but once Sorkin was able to speak to her it really changed the theme of the movie. It’s a shame really that Sorkin was so intent on restricting himself to the three scene format, because perhaps this was a story to be told that was worth listening to. How Jobs accepted Lisa as his own, and how Lisa actually ended up living with Jobs and his new family. But this is only hinted at during the film as it leaps from year to year and decade to decade.

I can’t help but think that if you don’t know the real story of Steve Jobs you will come away from the movie confused about what actually happened. While if, like me you know the story your reaction will be blinkered by the feeling that an injustice has been done in its telling. Jobs wife, Laurene Powell, who tried to get the movie stopped, was instrumental in some of early complications with the movie that saw the movie makers approach three different stars before one would agree to take on the role of Jobs. I can’t help but think that she was right to be concerned.

History of Apple: The story of Steve Jobs and the company he founded. In this feature we tell the story of Apple. We start with the early days, the tale of how Apple was founded, moving on through the Apple I, to the Apple II, the launch of the Macintosh and the revolution in the DTP industry.. To the tech- industry behemoth that we know and love today. So sit back as we take a stroll down memory lane. Why not brush up on what really happened before you go and watch the Steve Jobs movie, with its interesting interpretations of several important events in the company's history? On 1 April 1. 97.

Apple was founded, making the company 4. April 2. 01. 7 - here's a historical breakdown of the company.

The history of Apple. Our Apple history feature includes information about The foundation of Apple and the years that followed, we look at How Jobs met Woz and Why Apple was named Apple. The Apple I and The debut of the Apple II. Apple's visit to Xerox, and the one- button mouse. The story of The Lisa versus the Macintosh. Apple's '1. 98. 4' advert, directed by Ridley Scott.

The Macintosh and the DTP revolution. We go on to examine what happened between Jobs and Sculley, leading to Jobs departure from Apple, and what happened during The wilderness years: when Steve Jobs wasn't at Apple, including Apple's decline and IBM and Microsoft's rise and how Apple teamed up with IBM and Motorola and eventually Microsoft. And finally, The return of Jobs to Apple. The foundation of Apple. The history of everyone's favourite start- up is a tech fairytale of one garage, three friends and very humble beginnings. But we're getting ahead of ourselves. Jobs convinced him to take 1.

Woz come to blows, but Wayne backed out 1. Ron Wayne. How Jobs met Woz. Jobs and Woz (that's Steve Wozniak) were introduced in 1. Bill Fernandez, who went on to become one of Apple's earliest employees.

The two Steves got along thanks to their shared love of technology and pranks. Jobs and Wozniak joined forces, initially coming up with pranks such as rigging up a painting of a hand showing the middle- finger to be displayed during a graduaction ceremony at Jobs' school, and a call to the Vatican that nearly got them access to the Pope. The two friends were also using their technology know- how to build 'blue boxes' that made it possible to make long distance phone calls for free. Jobs and Wozniak worked together on the Atari arcade game Breakout while Jobs was working at Atari and Wozniak was working at HP - Jobs had roped Woz into helping him reduce the number of logic chips required.

Jobs managed to get a good bonus for the work on Breakout, of which he gave a small amount to Woz. The first Apple computer. The two Steves attended the Homebrew Computer Club together; a computer hobbyist group that gathered in California's Menlo Park from 1. Woz had seen his first MITS Altair there - which today looks like little more than a box of lights and circuit boards - and was inspired by MITS' build- it- yourself approach (the Altair came as a kit) to make something simpler for the rest of us. This philosophy continues to shine through in Apple’s products today. So Woz produced the the first computer with a typewriter- like keyboard and the ability to connect to a regular TV as a screen. Later christened the Apple I, it was the archetype of every modern computer, but Wozniak wasn't trying to change the world with what he'd produced - he just wanted to show off how much he'd managed to do with so few resources.

Speaking to NPR (National Public Radio) in 2. Woz explained that . It was to really show the people around me, to boast, to be clever, to get acknowledgement for having designed a very inexpensive computer. The Woz we know now has a larger- than- life personality - he's funded rock concerts and shimmied on Dancing with the Stars - but, as he told the Sydney Morning Herald, . Jobs saw Woz's computer, recognised its brilliance, and sold his VW microbus to help fund its production. Wozniak sold his HP calculator (which cost a bit more than calculators do today!), and together they founded Apple Computer Inc on 1 April 1.

Ronald Wayne. Why Apple was named Apple. The name Apple was to cause Apple problems in later years as it was uncomfortably similar to that of the Beatles' publisher, Apple Corps, but its genesis was innocent enough. Speaking to Byte magazine in December 1. Woz credited Jobs with the idea.

I thought that it might be because there were apples in the orchard or maybe just its fructarian nature. Maybe the word just happened to occur to him.

In any case, we both tried to come up with better names but neither one of us could think of anything better after Apple was mentioned. He apparently thought the name sounded “fun, spirited and not intimidating.”The name also likely benefitted by beginning with an A, which meant it would be nearer the front of any listings.

The Apple Logo. There are other theories about the meaning behind the name Apple. The idea that it was named thus because Newton was inspired when an Apple fell out of a tree hitting him on the head, is backed up by the fact that the original Apple logo was a rather complicated illustration of Newton sitting under a tree. Later the company settled on the bite out of an Apple design for Apple's logo - a far simpler logo design. These logos are probably the reason for other theories about the meaning behind the name Apple, with some suggesting that the Apple logo with a chunk taken out of it is a nod at computer scientist and Enigma code- breaker, Alan Turing, who committed suicide by eating a cyanide infused apple. However, according to Rob Janoff, the designer who created the logo, the Turing connection is simply . The idea being that the Apple represents knowledge.

Selling the Apple IWoz built each computer by hand, and although he'd wanted to sell them for little more than the cost of their parts - at a price at that would recoup their outlay as long as they shipped 5. Jobs had bigger ideas. Jobs inked a deal with the Byte Shop in Mountain View to supply it with 5. This meant that once the store had taken its cut, the Apple I sold for $6. Wozniak liked repeating numbers and was unaware of the 'number of the beast' conection.

Byte Shop was going out on a limb: the Apple I didn't exist in any great numbers, and the nascent Apple Computer Inc didn't have the resources to fulfil the order. Neither could it get them. Atari, where Jobs worked, wanted cash for any components it sold him, a bank turned him down for a loan, and although he had an offer of $5,0. In the end, it was Byte Shop's purchase order that sealed the deal. Jobs took it to Cramer Electronics and, as Walter Isaacson explains in Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography, he convinced Cramer's manager to call Paul Terrell, owner of Byte Shop, to verify the order.

The Cramer manager told him that two scruffy kids had just walked in waving an order from the Byte Shop. Was it real? Terrell confirmed that it was, and the store agreed to front Jobs the parts on thirty- day credit. The risk involved was too great for Ronald Wayne, and it's ultimately this that saw him duck out. Did they have the money? Was I reachable? When he unpacked them, Terrell, who had ordered finished computers, was surprised by what he found. As Michael Moritz explains in Return to the Little Kingdom, .

Terrell couldn't even test the board without buying two transformers. Once a keyboard had been hooked to the machine it still couldn't be programmed without somebody laboriously typing in the code for BASIC since Wozniak and Jobs hadn't provided the language on a cassette tape or in a ROM chip. It had no case. If your pockets aren't that deep, Briel Computers' Replica 1 Plus is a hardware clone of the Apple I, and ships at a far more affordable $1.

When you consider that only 2. Apple I was a triumph.