Saw Jobs in theater and Changeling on TV.
I saw Steve Jobs in Bell Labs two decades ago. He had come to Labs to show his NEXT computer; he had left Apple at that time. I was blown away by the richness of his NEXT computer. I don't think he sold NEXT much at all. In fact I had seen one Next computer in Labs, one of the MTSs had it. I vividly remember Jobs' style. Seeing the movie reminded me of his walking style and his bent back stature.
The movie was simply superb. It reflects American spirit and gives the viewer a glimpse of why America is great. America has at any time thousands of Jobs though not as spectacularly successful, but driven with zeal and energy all the same. Can you think of an invention in the last 50 years or so that came from a company outside of the US of A? I don't believe that people like Jobs, Gates don't exist elsewhere, but there is something in American culture and psyche that cultivates such men and women.
The movie brought back sweet memories of my own experience with Mac. I bought the the first Mac (still have it, bit the keyboard fell apart) when it was released. It came with awesome 128 KB RAM memory. I bought it because its price was dropped to around a thousand dollars for U of Utah students (almost 50% discount). I did my entire PhD thesis on it and printed it on the ImageWriter, another Apple creation, the most beautiful dot-matrix printer at the time. My thesis was the first one in the university ever printed on a dot-matrix printer. So the university had to decide whether to allow departure from typewritten thesis'. It took weeks for the U board to approve.
Our entire family was fond of Mac (I bought only one other Mac called Classic which looked similar to the first one but was vastly superior).
Jobs obviously had many personal failings like his abandoning his own daughter, his unkind treatment of his employees, but I think that can be forgiven considering his genius in innovation and technology that shook the world for almost four decades. I don't know Jobs personally but I assume the movie reflects his personality accurately. He was obviously a man who was just burning up inside, eternally unhappy, eternally driven. There was no way he could live for 100 years. Humans are not designed for carrying such mental load day-in and day-out their entire lives.
I saw Steve Jobs in Bell Labs two decades ago. He had come to Labs to show his NEXT computer; he had left Apple at that time. I was blown away by the richness of his NEXT computer. I don't think he sold NEXT much at all. In fact I had seen one Next computer in Labs, one of the MTSs had it. I vividly remember Jobs' style. Seeing the movie reminded me of his walking style and his bent back stature.
The movie was simply superb. It reflects American spirit and gives the viewer a glimpse of why America is great. America has at any time thousands of Jobs though not as spectacularly successful, but driven with zeal and energy all the same. Can you think of an invention in the last 50 years or so that came from a company outside of the US of A? I don't believe that people like Jobs, Gates don't exist elsewhere, but there is something in American culture and psyche that cultivates such men and women.
The movie brought back sweet memories of my own experience with Mac. I bought the the first Mac (still have it, bit the keyboard fell apart) when it was released. It came with awesome 128 KB RAM memory. I bought it because its price was dropped to around a thousand dollars for U of Utah students (almost 50% discount). I did my entire PhD thesis on it and printed it on the ImageWriter, another Apple creation, the most beautiful dot-matrix printer at the time. My thesis was the first one in the university ever printed on a dot-matrix printer. So the university had to decide whether to allow departure from typewritten thesis'. It took weeks for the U board to approve.
Our entire family was fond of Mac (I bought only one other Mac called Classic which looked similar to the first one but was vastly superior).
Jobs obviously had many personal failings like his abandoning his own daughter, his unkind treatment of his employees, but I think that can be forgiven considering his genius in innovation and technology that shook the world for almost four decades. I don't know Jobs personally but I assume the movie reflects his personality accurately. He was obviously a man who was just burning up inside, eternally unhappy, eternally driven. There was no way he could live for 100 years. Humans are not designed for carrying such mental load day-in and day-out their entire lives.
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