The movie that celebrated Steve Jobs was The Pirates of Silicon Valley.

I don't know, that seems all pretty much in line with everything I've read. You can be a hero, a visionary and a jerk all at the same time.

Jealousy, envy is part of it. Ideology explains part, too.
Is it vital that all Hollywood's ideologic enemies have feet of clay?
It's a trailer, so it may not be indicative of the whole.
Fortunately, the free market judges mostly on productive results (although phsychological tricks to stimulate demand do have an effect.)

The hero is not so much Job as it is Wozniak, who did actually build the machines.

Maybe the hating has to do with the guy's name.
Jobs is a concept leftists aren't really into.

What I really admire about SJ is he funded Apple with equity investments. When SJ left Apple due to illness, Apple had no debt.

I believe that you have a situation that we see very often in our discussions, where a particular persons characteristics get melded into a singular description " he's an ahole" or "he's a genius". I don't know much about the insider stuff on who did what at Apple, but I do know a lot about Andy Grove of Intel. Andy had a lot of quirks that I hear about Jobs, (maybe not to the degree of some of them), but he could be a real rough houser in a meeting, having a stick with a cleanroom glove on it that had the middle finger raised that he used like a scepter. The Pentium debacle humbled him a lot, as he could not integrate the idea of people worrying about a flaw that would only manifest itself in calculations done by .00001% of the users. It was the perception, not the actual issue he could not grasp. What little I heard about Jobs indicated to me he was a "hard charging, my way or no way" kind of guy. The end result was he did bail them out a couple times that I recall. As far as the personal aspect goes, if we dive into our leaders in both business and politics to the degree they have with him, I am sure they will all turn up as equally "bad" people. Some even have overachieved and surpassed his qualities, like some of our politicians today. Apple does a much better job at listening to consumers, and driving their opinions than Microsoft or the I86 crowd. Their emphasis on graphics and stability were the 2 things that brought them a very loyal band of consumers. And those consumers are willing to pay for that capability. Intel has only woken up to the importance of graphics performance in the last 5 years or so, and hung their hat with MS when it comes to stability, which hasn't ever been a strong point. Like him or not, I think there is enough evidence to say Jobs was impactive in what he did. Hero? I am not so sure...

The see him a ruthless even though he was kind of on the 'Liberal' side of things outside of business.

Jobs was a visionary, genius, value creator and leader. No question. He was also nuts. Early on he didn't bathe. He was such a perfectionist he didn't have furniture. He neglected his first daughter, and later tried to atone, but denied it, bu naming his computer line, the Lisa, after her. He refused to consider surgery or conventional treatment for his cancer, even though they caught it very early. He could easily be with us today, if he didn't try to "force his views on reality" ( a force of will he was successful with in business) and rid himself of cancer with diet et al.

He brought computing to the mainstream with the Apple II. He brought GUIs to the mainstream forever with the Macintosh (no he didn't invent them). These two has Woz right behind him, inventing all kinds of awesome stuff, getting 15% more out of floppy drives by varying the speed with radius, and gobs of other stuff. The Mac was so far ahead of pathetic MS DOS and Windows at that time. The comparisons were completely biased and pathetic. Flat address space. Real workstation processor. Completely consistent user experience in every application. Clean graphics. Just beautiful! Where is that jack-ass, John C. Dvorak now with his idiotic droning about command-lines for "power users"? He should be eating every article he wrote from 1985-1990. Macintoshs were superior in every way. Then Jobs left Apple, screwed up on Next, an then made Pixar into a star. When he came back he rescued Apple from the Motorola/IBM PowerPC, and go them onto the now (not in 1984) superior Intel platform with Unix, and Macs took off again, superior again. Then the iPod (not new into itself), and he revolutionized music. The the iPad and iPhone and he revolutionized phones and brought a new device to the mainstream, the tablet.

He was a nut, but an absolutely major contributor to society, among a few handful, and I do not include Trump, Larry Ellison or Jack Welch.

I do not see how Apple can continue to grow without Jobs. Johnny Ive is not the same.

My observation of people indicates that people lacking in certain virtues take great pleasure in bringing down those who possess them. This appears especially true when the person being taken down is also very successful. It is an expected response. Occasionally it is the reaction of a single individual but, most frequently, it seems to be a group mentality.

Think of middle school and high school behavior. Some things rarely change.

Sometimes the strategy of being "harsh" rather than causing people to hate you, causes them to exceed to higher levels than they ever thought they coud, It's the "tough love" business strategy,.....but make sure you know what you company needss to excel at first!>

Harmon,

You are justified in suspecting a Hollywood hit job, especially after that poster.

What do you not like about the trailer? What do you want to see more or less of?


BTW:

I was at the first NeXTworld Expo in San Fran, and the expo was more crazy than what they show in the trailer. There were two rooms separated by a retractable wall, one room for dev companies and VIPs, the other for standard expo goers.

The VIP room was live. The standard room had streaming video.

As Jobs came on stage, the streaming video in the standard room went out. The people in that room almost rioted and tried to physically take down the wall.

I think he was a visionary. and then he worked hard to steal others' intellectual property. So, I would love to see him portrayed as they did in Great Again: http://www.amazon.com/Great-Again-Rev...