As typical with a Hollywood film, the characters in the end, as you might say, lived happily ever after. He had a couple incidents with Steve Wozniak (Seth Rogan) where he refused to recognize a team of engineers for their work on developing the old and outdated Apple II. He is asked to help support the single mom and her daughter, and after much wrangling he finally agrees. Steve Jobs was constantly barraged by Chrisanne Brennan (Katherine Waterson), the woman with whom he had a daughter. Each of these events brought about problems with co-workers, family, and friends. These announcements were for the Macintosh, the NeXT computer, and the iMac. In the film three of these events take place, and the happenings prior are illustrated.
Today, Apple refers to their announcements as keynotes or special events, but back in the early days of Apple, these events were called Macworld. An engineer might have said, “We can’t make that,” but Steve always fired back by either threatening or just arguing with the engineer to “get it done!” Probably, if it hadn’t been for Steve, we might not possess the technology we do today. He had his own little world which was dubbed his “reality distortion field.” He was known for constantly calling his employees names, arguing, and bullying them just because he didn’t get what he wanted. Jobs was a person who doesn’t like to play by the same rules as others. Steve Jobs was considered a difficult person to work with in fact, there was an award that was given to the employee who could “handle” Steve. After seeing the film, I can say with assurance, they were spot on! The screen play was fantastic, but some of the events didn’t seem to coincide with each other. Knowing all this, I was, honestly, nervous about what Hollywood would might do to his character. I knew a great deal about his family background and how he interacted with them later in life.
After reading books about Steve, including his biography by Isaac Watkinson, I had an idea of his character, and his work ethic. Yesterday, I had the opportunity to see the new movie, Steve Jobs, starring Michael Fassbender.