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Early Apple Employees Talk Memories of Steve Jobs, Thoughts On New Movie
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."
Damn right! This should be a documentary about how he tried over and over and over to bankrupt the company but just couldn't do it. His unhealthy obsession that was a blatant mental problem relating to both off buttons and active cooling aka fans was the biggest detriment to the company ever. There was a 20 year history of confusing and difficult to use devices that nobody can figure out how to turn on or off. Then you can't forget product after product overheating. His arrogant unwillingness to work with other computer platforms also almost crushed it. Then he refused to buy chips from anyone actually good until the board just about threatened to shoot him in order to get Intel in there. They should title this movie "The Miracle" and have it be about a company that overcame great adversity to crawl out from under the rule of the crazy person running it. All this "visionary" crap is enough to make me throw up.