Nice. Woz wants to get in on the Jobs-action too. He aint rich enough.
That's what you think...
Nice. Woz wants to get in on the Jobs-action too. He aint rich enough.
Go Woz! The better of the two Steve's.
Full disclosure... I do own a copy of iWoz.
Oh please, if WOZ was the better of two Steve's then why didn't he build his own company as big as Apple.....LIKE JOBS DID? Better still, why didn't Apple get WOZ back on board to rebuild the company.....AS THEY ASKED JOBS?
Truth is, WOZ is nothing more than an icon from yesteryear and deserves zero credit for why Apple is successful today.
Well most of those sucked actually. never saw dolphin tale and moneyball was ok, but those others sucked actually. so yes, JOBS is going to be embarrassingly bad.. now if it torpedoes ashton's career then it wasn't without purpose then!Those of you complaining about this film - I wonder how you felt about
Argo
The Social Network
The King's Speech
Dolphin Tale
Moneyball
The Blindside
Big Miracle
...and so on...
Did they even approach Woz or anyone else from Homebrew to consult when writing this script? To put all those resources and effort into a film and get it so wrong is a shame.
Okay, but why aren't film makers consulting the people they're making a movie about? I thought it was the absolute most basic thing to do: ask those who you make a movie about, let them tell you how it happened, isn't that the most authentic way of doing things?
Walter Isaacson didn't just write the biography without consulting everyone he could about everything.
I barely got through the book, as half of the book is Woz telling us how great he is and how smart he is... we already know that... the guy is a genius. I just don't like it when someone tells me how much of a genius they are. If someone else wants to write about him, that's fine.
Woz isn't afraid to tell you how great he is and that he did something you can't do. I would like a bit more modesty.
I thought iWoz was a great book, and much better than the Isaacson bio. I did not get the sense that he was "bragging."
Woz is irrelevant and only opens his mouth so he can try and be relevant again. What has he done lately, other than stand on line for new phones being released?
I'm sorry to those who like Woz here but the truth of the matter is some people here are giving him way too much credit. Sure he was one of the pioneers of Apple but he's not even remotely the reason why the company is successful today. Where was his creative genius when the company was on the verge of going belly up? If he was no longer with the company I see no reason to keep giving him so much credit as if he was the mastermind to the company's success today.
Oh please, if WOZ was the better of two Steve's then why didn't he build his own company as big as Apple.....LIKE JOBS DID? Better still, why didn't Apple get WOZ back on board to rebuild the company.....AS THEY ASKED JOBS?
Truth is, WOZ is nothing more than an icon from yesteryear and deserves zero credit for why Apple is successful today.
Oh please, if WOZ was the better of two Steve's then why didn't he build his own company as big as Apple.....LIKE JOBS DID? Better still, why didn't Apple get WOZ back on board to rebuild the company.....AS THEY ASKED JOBS?
Truth is, WOZ is nothing more than an icon from yesteryear and deserves zero credit for why Apple is successful today.
Ah, and Steve Jobs never existed from day one. WOZ was all by his lonesome, eating up a storm of burgers no doubt.Pop-culture has a very short memory doesn't it. Historians on the hand recognise that without Woz there would have been no Apple in the first place.
Arguing that Woz deserves zero credit for Apple's more recent success is like saying Newton deserves zero credit for his contribution to science because science has moved on since then. Ridiculous.
I just love the WOZ fans who act like WOZ was alone during the inception of Apple Computer.
How old are you? 'cause for me it was definitely the Apple ][ family that made Apple, the Mac was their second coming. At one point before the PC clone invasion they really ruled the 8 bit roost.Not so much this...
Woz ... What has he done lately, other than stand on line for new phones being released?
Not so much this...
Woz was largely divorced from Apple during Mac development. I don't think many people even understand Woz's role and tenure at Apple. It's small, and non-existent during the defining years.
He's role is well overstated by many. He was a founder and created the Apple I & II. Kudos, but how Apple is seen, and known really began with this...
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Ah, and Steve Jobs never existed from day one. WOZ was all by his lonesome, eating up a storm of burgers no doubt.
I never mentioned anything about Apple's "Recent Success". Gotta love how people re-word stuff to work the argument in their favor.
Truth is, WOZ is nothing more than an icon from yesteryear and deserves zero credit for why Apple is successful today.
Are you kidding me? The Apple II was EVERYWHERE back in the early-mid 80's. Every classroom in my elementary school had one. It's the one computer everyone associates with the earlier success of the company.
The original Macintosh, while ultimately a better indicator of the direction the industry was headed, wasn't nearly so well known and widespread.
Are you kidding me? The Apple II was EVERYWHERE back in the early-mid 80's. Every classroom in my elementary school had one. It's the one computer everyone associates with the earlier success of the company.
The original Macintosh, while ultimately a better indicator of the direction the industry was headed, wasn't nearly so well known and widespread.
The Mac, to be fair, really set Apple apart for bringing the GUI and mouse to the masses, and in my mind was when Apple really did start defining its identity… but without the Apple II and its financial success, there would have been no funds to tinker with this brave new world. Someone else would have done it, and quite possibly none of us today would even know the name Steve Jobs.
I learned BASIC on Apple II, but I have much fonder memories of the Commodore 64.
THX 1138 and American Graffiti provided the means for Star Wars to be made, but Star Wars is the film that changed cinema till the today, and defined George Lucas’ career.
The same relationship exists between the Apple II, the Macintosh and Steve Jobs.
The first endeavor is not always the most significant.
The Commodore 64 was a brilliant PC. It was the first computer I ever owned, and I spent way too many hours on itincluding teaching myself BASIC. I still have a working one and my kids actually reckon its pretty cool too, having played some of its games. Not bad for a 30 year old computer!
I tend to agree with you. It's not too bad an analogy, but we are talking about the very earliest era of personal computing, whereas film had been around for many years before Lucas came on the scene. Woz was doing some pioneering stuff technically, which when paired with Jobs' mind for business, proved to be a winning combination. Apple would not have happened without either one.
Don't get me wrong… I'm not one of these guys who posts a picture of Woz every time questions of Apple's leadership arise and thinks he should run for President. I just think it's unfair when people try to write him off as unimportant in Apple's history.
Oh, and if we look at George Lucas's more recent work (prequels and incessant tinkering with the originals), I think maybe we should avoid too many comparisons to Steve Jobs, whose track record only improved with age.
The Macintosh created modern computing. The Macintosh was Steve Jobs' baby.
The Apple II was prolific and important to the early PC years, but it didn't turn the computing world upside down like the Mac which introduced concepts that the average user regards as critical to their daily lives even today.
I learned BASIC on Apple II, but I have much fonder memories of the Commodore 64.