Today’s movie is a biography with a scene that happens on October 21. Watch and enjoy this film tonight.
JOBS
On October 21, 2001, Steve Jobs introduces the ipod to his employees at the annual Apple Town Hall Meeting. [1:28 – 4:11]. In a very long flashback we go back to 1974 where Jobs drops out of college and later travels to India. He works at Atari and with Steve Wozniak creates the game Pong. Steve is excited when he sees Wozniak has developed the graphical interface. Steve persuades a local electronics store to order 50 computers and even though Steve only delivers boards and not finished computers persuades the owner to buy them. Mike Markkula invests in their company Apple Computers and they create the Apple II, which is a big seller. Apple eventually has a hugely successful IPO. Jobs refuses to acknowledge the daughter he had with longtime girlfriend Chrisann Brennan. Jobs persuades the board of Apple to hire John Sculley to run the company, but Sculley soon forces Jobs off the team that is developing Apple’s new computer, the LISA. Jobs takes over the Macintosh development team. Even though Macintosh receives a lot of interest, Wozniak quits and Jobs is forced out of the company. Ten years later Jobs is married and has now accepted his daughter. He returns as a consultant at Apple, but eventually takes over, forcing the prior CEO out. Jobs develops the ipod and introduces it to the world.
historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/jobs.php gives the date of this meeting
Producer - Mark Hulme
Director - Joshua Michael Stern
Screenwriter - Matt Whiteley
Released – January 25, 2013
Runtime – 2 hours 2 minutes
Starring –
Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs, Josh Gad as Steve Wozniak, Lukas Haas as Daniel Kottke, Victor Rasuk as Bill Fernandez, Eddie Hassell as Chris Espinosa, Ron Eldard as Rod Holt, Nelson Franklin as Bill Atkinson, Elden Henson as Andy Hertzfeld, Lenny Jacobson as Burrell Smith, Giles Matthey as Jonathan Ive, Dermot Mulroney as Mike Markkula, Matthew Modine as John Sculley, J. K. Simmons as Arthur Rock, Kevin Dunn as Gil Amelio, John Getz as Paul Jobs, Lesley Ann Warren as Clara Jobs, Abby Brammell as Laurene Powell Jobs, Annika Bertea as Lisa Brennan-Jobs (adult), Ava Acres as Lisa Brennan-Jobs (child), Ahna O'Reilly as Chrisann Brennan, James Woods as Jack Dudman, David Denman as Al Alcorn, Brad William Henke as Paul Terrell, Robert Pine as Edgar S. Woolard, Jr., Amanda Crew as Julie
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