The script Aaron Sorkin is crafting for a film about Steve Jobs will be comprised of just three scenes, the Academy Award-winning screenwriter said Thursday.
The scenes will all take place backstage before three of Jobs’ most important product launches: the original Macintosh; NeXT, which was the start-up Jobs created after leaving Apple; and the iPod.
Zzzzzzzzz … suddenly the Ashton Kutcher-starring Steve Jobs movie is beginning to sound a lot more interesting. Sorkin has an opportunity to surface interesting details about Jobs, and he chose to focus on the three parts of the story everyone knows? Considering the details he has from the Isaacson book, the formative years would have made much more interesting than this. This is a guy who didn’t use deodorant for like 30 years! He disowned his daughter just as he was becoming famous! He ate nothing but fruit! There’s got to be better uses of 90 minutes than a “24”-style behind-the-scenes piece, which basically sounds like a tech-company recreation of “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip,” because that’s this guy’s comfort zone.
in the early days of Apple Inc, Steve Jobs would occasionally sign computer chips, attach them to Apple stationery and send them out randomly to Apple fans
I’m sure that letter would probably sell for a lot of money on eBay. Really cool.
And then I asked him the question, I said .. ‘I would use it for buybacks if I thought my stock was undervalued.’ And I said, ‘How do you feel about that?’ The stock was 200-and-something. He said, ‘I think my stock is very undervalued.’ I said, ‘Well, what better to do with your money?’Warren Buffett • Explaining how, in a conversation with Steve Jobs a few years ago, the duo discussed what Apple should do with its huge cash reserves. Buffett told Jobs to buy back some of the company’s stock. Jobs reportedly later told his friends that Buffett agreed that they should do nothing with the money — which, in case you missed the last sentence, is the opposite of what he said. Since Jobs died last year, the company has discussed a stock buyback, though it’s made a number of acquisitions of late. The stock, currently at $526, is still considered undervalued.
Highly recommend watching the interview Walter Isaacson did with “60 Minutes” about his Steve Jobs biography. (The first part is above; MacRumors has the rest, including two extra clips not shown on the broadcast.) There are a ton of facts that are really, truly surprising in here. Amongst the others — what his kids are like, his parents, his health, the way he ran his company, and so on. One of the clips, in fact, focuses on his photo album, shown (quite obviously) on an iPad 2. The best little detail in the four clips, if you ask us? Jobs revealing that he’s a big fan of Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook. A great teaser ahead of the book, which comes out tomorrow morning.
“Here’s to the Crazy Ones” — the first of Apple’s “Think Different” commercials. But this one is a bit different. It’s narrated by Steve Jobs himself.
Pretty much the greatest thing ever.
A thing of beauty.
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