He founded one of the most iconic companies of the last fifty years;
Indeed, one of the, so it's not that unique.
had it take away from him, spent years in exile,
Exile? He was not Napoleon send off to a prison on an remote Island with a golden mask attached to his face you know.... Exile? He got himself a well payed job by buying a company himself and transforming it into a new company called Next....
and gained it back again.
Not 'gained', Apple bought the entire company Next, with it came Steve...
And the second time, took it from the brink of death
With, at that time, Jobs himself as head of Apple....makes one wonder about who was part in the brink of being death situation doesn't it?
be the most successful company of its day--
True. But i.m.h.o. it's a bit naive thinking Jobs was mainly responsible for this, he had, at the right time at the right moment, brilliant insides, but without the brilliant people surrounding him he couldn't have pulled it off to begin with. At the time Jobs was, as a metaphor, like Jim Morrison, brilliant, but without his even equal brilliancy band-members Morrison would have been considered an 'ok / good' poet, nothing more. It's the nuances that counts.
one that inspired so many fans it was practically a cult.
Nope, he didn't 'inspire' the iPod did. This is where Apple gained success with. The Steve Job cultus was something that came along as the success of Apple grew further on.
Was "the guy" who changed the computer business,
You give all the credits to one that gave the green light, Jobs wasn't the person that came with the brilliant designs of the revolutionary looking iMacs, nor did Jobs created the iPod, he gave the green light to those who did. A small but necessary nuance, especially when considering you leave out the names of people who actually invented everything that made Apple big....
No, he certainly did not. Know your facts.
Before Graphics Group became Pixar under the leadership of Steve Jobs they, Graphic Groups, already made the basis that would revolutionize the animation industry in a period years later. In fact under Steve Jobs leadership the company didn't do so well, to put it mildly. It was due John Lasseter, who worked at Pixar, his brilliancy that Pixar convinced Walt Disney to invest in the company after he made the short Luxo Jr.. and several computer generated commercials.
music business and the phone business.
Yes and no. With the iPhone, yes. But the music industry? Half, I give a lot of credits to Karlheinz Brandenburg who invented the mp3 format, without that together with it's popularity there would not have been the mp3 player to begin with. And the iPod wasn't the first mp3 player as well, but it sure was, at the time, the best player i.m.h.o.
WAS an arrogant egomaniac, a perfectionist, a tyrant, a purist, a charismatic, the inventor of the "reality distortion field", one of the two or three most famous business men (to the average person) of the last 50 years. Yeah, he was not interesting at all.
Indeed, Jobs wasn't half as interesting as portrayed in your story, but still, he's an interesting figure I must admit. Don't get me wrong here, I love Apple products but my two feats stay put on the ground knowing that allthough it's tempting to make a messiah out of Jobs, the reality of the matter is that Jobs wasn't a real great technician, neither an inventor and in many occasions even a terrible leader and a businessmen but on the 'right' moment on the 'right time' he made the 'right' decisions that, indeed, changed the industry landscape. But knowing this, one can't be surprised that Hollywood needs brilliant scriptwriters to create this 'reality distortion field' around the guy to make it worthy for visitors to actually buy a ticket to see hum on the big screen
