Early Apple Employees Talk Memories of Steve Jobs, Thoughts On New Movie 146
Nerval's Lobster writes "Daniel Kottke and Bill Fernandez had front-row seats to the birth of the personal computing industry, as well as the most valuable technology company in the world. Both served as employees of Apple Computer in its earliest days: Kottke working with the hardware, Fernandez developing the user interfaces. Both have some strong opinions about the new feature film Jobs, which dramatizes the personal and professional escapades of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and his more technically inclined partner, Steve Wozniak. Kottke consulted on early versions of the script, attended the movie's premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in February, and is currently planning to see it again shortly after its release on August 16. Fernandez, on the other hand, hasn't seen it and doesn't intend to, because he considers it a work of fiction and thinks it will upset him. In this lengthy interview with Slashdot, both attempted to distinguish the facts and longstanding geek legends from the instances of pure creative license exercised by the filmmakers."
Link to film (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/jan/28/sundance-festival-jobs-first-look-review [theguardian.com]
Heres a link to info about the film itself: Jobs (film) [wikipedia.org].
Check out the new Slashdot iPad app [apple.com]
A legend? (Score:5, Informative)
Woz is the legend. Jobs was the PR machine.
For balance (Score:4, Informative)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iGm4dl0Ys4 [youtube.com]
Bill Burr - Night of Too Many Stars 2012
Birth of PC - Altair, not Apple (Score:4, Informative)
It really amazes me how badly some people want history to read that Apple started the computer revolution. If there is any one group responsible for starting the home computing boom, it was the Homebrew Computer Club and the advent of the Altair [wikipedia.org] . Please stop trying to make Apple history happen differently than it happened. If anything, Jobs and Gates were douc^H^H businessmen and acted as such trying to screw everyone else over [winrumors.com] in order to gain wealth and power.
Re:Link to film (Score:5, Informative)
Uhm, I hate to break the news to you, but the name of the movie was "Jobs" and not "Jobs & Woz".
Re:Birth of PC - Altair, not Apple (Score:4, Informative)
The interviewees also lament that the movie in question doesn't even mention all the others that were there to provide context, and that Apple was by no means a sure thing.