Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney’s Steve Jobs documentary, Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine, debuted over the weekend at the South by Southwest (SXSW) film festival in Austin, Texas.
Financed by CNN Films, the 127-minute doc was described by its maker as delivering a “far more complex interpretation” of Jobs than any of the previous movies depicting the life of Apple’s iconic co-founder.
But what did the press think? Well, the first reviews are out and, while they’re generally strong, they certainly don’t describe a documentary that paints Jobs in a favorable light – or one that contains too many revelations that will be new to anyone who read Jobs’ maligned 2011 biography by Walter Isaacson.
Interestingly enough, this is the same director behind the praised documentary about the criminal organisation ‘scientology’. Moreover, Apple has actually deemed it worthy enough to attack the documentary, claiming it is “inaccurate and mean-spirited”.
A more glowing endorsement has never existed, I would say.
What? Steve Jobs had a tad of narcissistic personality disorder? Oh wait, we already knew that…
Genius and nastyassness goes hand in hand, unfortunately.
Do you have any evidence for that? It smells like it came from somewhere else.
That is merely a stereotype. History is full of humble and compassionate men and women of vastly greater intellect and ability than Steve Jobs.
Jobs was nasty. He wasn’t a genius – just a great self-promoter.
One vast corporation making a documentary about the recent head of another vast corporation – at a moment when he can longer sue. It will have an interesting balance no doubt.
…what?
Large corporations are run by carnivores – SJ was among them. Doubtless they each deserve scrutiny but scrutiny molded through the lens of another corporation is interesting.
Which other corporation? That’s my confusion.
I guess he’s referring to this.
So what? Personal stories do not invalidate what other people experience of him.
He sounds like a character in an Ayn Rand novel.
Killing philanthropic programs? Good, then you aren’t involved in the pro/anti-abortion, or pro/anti-gay marriage or the rest.
A girl had sex with him then tried to steal his cash? Why wasn’t his liability limited to the market price of an abortion at the time of pregnancy? Did he consent to fecund sex or did the woman effectively rape him?
Tax evasion is illegal, tax avoidance is not. If it was evasion, blame the corrupt government for not throwing him or the hundreds, if not thousands of others who did the identical thing in prison.
Apple is (or was) Steve Jobs who was mono-manically concentrated on the product, the experience, the user, and even the developer. Not anything else including whatever the social justice warriors wanted. There is more honor in the fortitude to stick to your guns than to do whatever the people in the media say you should.
In that he was honest and concentrated on what he wanted – which was his stockholders and customers, this increases his status in my eyes. I do disagree with him a lot on his actions but not at all with his integrity. Perhaps he had the virtue of fortitude in excess, but Apple would not have ascended without it.
Bill and Melinda Gates want to use 3rd world children as experimental subjects testing toxic vaccines and want to sterilize women in a way that would embarrass China – yet they are philanthropists. We’ve forgotten the Eugenics and the Nazis.
Now Tim Cook wants to do everything except Insanely Great products. Contribute to whatever. Buy back stock. Support political causes. Hence the Apple Watch. Apple might be at its Apogee. Jobs accelerated it to a very fast, but not quite escape velocity. So now it looks fine but is decelerating and will fall back to earth and crash unless it finds another rocket. Coasting is still coasting.
Buying back stock, supporting LGBT causes, squeezing US suppliers and the rest is not going to do it.
The motor of the world of Apple has been stopped for a while.
I don’t think I’ve encountered a Microsoft fanboy so obviously a lunatic as this Apple/Ayn fanboy.
This one, perhaps : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHZ8ek-6ccc
DaFuq? He basically called Bill Gates a murderer of the third world while practically creaming on a picture of Jobs…how in the fuck does that make the guy a MSFT fanboy?
It just shows you iFanboys are as indoctrinated as any Scientologist when it comes to their belief in the cult of Steve, even somebody who praises Jobs is considered “the other” if he doesn’t have 100% praise for the great one, all praise iSteve.
Awww… was it so hard reading past the first half of the sentence?
“He sounds like a character in an Ayn Rand novel.”
If you mean a narcissist lunatic you would be correct.
*shrugs*
Dude get back on your meds. Quick!