Jobs Movie

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Anyone going to see the Jobs movie tomorrow? I never understood Steve Jobs getting excited about black & white computers in the 1980s or killing the Newton. But I did respect what he did for the iPod, iPhone, iPad & Pixar. He made the world less boring. Too bad he passed on the Amiga and was not a fan. A Steve Jobs Amiga would have cost $100,000 anyway.

http://jobsthefilm.com/

I tend to disagree, he made everyone that use a computer a mindless idiot. Look at the deadheads using the iPod, iPhone and Ipad. I am completely happy that he passed on the Amiga because today we would be using a computer where the only thing you had to know about computing is where the on switch would be. He had you locked out of everything else.

As Steve once told me at a computer show in San Francisco, why would I want people ucking around in my system, those idiots would really screw up the computer. Oh, by the way I was a Commodore rep, working at that show, and the only way Steve impressed me was he had an ego that wouldn't quit. He thought he was digitals gift to computers.

I do agree with you though on the cost of an Amiga if Steve Jobs had it, but he probably would have disabled 90% of the OS.

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Weird... For me the early Apple/Jobs story is quite interesting, but not that unusual (Microsoft story, the Acorn story, the Sinclair story, the Hi-Torro story etc were all around at that time)...

What is truly interesting is the Apple/Jobs story from 1996 onwards, he turned a failing company with no prospect of recovery into the biggest tech company on Earth. Love him or hate him, that is a fascinating story.

Yeah, if you talked to him you would find out he was a real butt hole.

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@AmigaNG,

You are completely right, Jay was a really cool person, who had a lot of good idea's. The only thing was he worked for Commodore, and they wouldn't allow him to do half the stuff he wanted to try. Like when I was talking to him he really liked the 286 and 386 structure. He said if he knew those processors where going to be coming out, he would of loved to try them to see what they would do. Back when he chose the 68000 that was the chip of the day. I know I will get flamed on this one.