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Steve Jobs Movie Clip Historically Inaccurate, Says Woz
Yesterday saw the release of a clip from the upcoming movie jOBS, a biopic about the life of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. The clip shows Jobs, played by Ashton Kutcher, having a conversation with Steve Wozniak, played by Josh Gad, about how influential an operating system for a personal computer would be. The real Steve Wozniak commented on the clip, saying the situation it portrayed was "totally wrong." He said, "Personalities and where the ideas of computers affecting society did not come from Jobs. They inspired me and were widely spoken at the Homebrew Computer Club. Steve came back from Oregon and came to a club meeting and didn't start talking about this great social impact. 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. Steve came from selling surplus parts at HalTed he always saw a way to make a quick buck off my designs (this was the 5th time). The lofty talk came much further down the line." Wozniak was quick to add that he isn't making any judgment on the quality of the movie based on a single, 1-minute clip, and that the rest of the movie may or may not be more accurate. He also says he hopes it's entertaining.
it must be really frustrating for Job's fans that there's still someone around than can correct their white-washed version of history.
In that conversation of course you are trying to push your own biases. Not based on actual knowledge - you weren't there. But on what you prefer to believe having listened to other people telling stories. Of course that's going to be frustrating.
Nomad Jukebox 3. That's huge. Bizarrely designed to look like a CD player,and of similar size. Comes with rubber feet for putting on a table, because it's too large to carry around with you.
The iPod started out the size of a pack of cigarettes, and only got smaller.
Battery life? The Nomad came with a couple of rechargable AA batteries. About 5 hours life. The first iPod was 10 hours.
Quality? The nomad was cheap plastic crap. The iPod was always a quality construction.
Sound quality, OK, that's somewhere where the Nomad was good. But the rest of your claims are shit.
Also, considering that Apple stole the designs from Xerox,
To license is not to steal.