I have seen and read most everything about Steve Jobs. Although there is not too much new here, the author looks at Jobs from an interesting perspective. Why is it that so many people who never met or knew Steve Jobs worship him so much. I guess the same could have been said about Michael Jackson fans.
I have read some at Apple were critical of this film even though they may not have seen it. I found this to be very objective and balanced, it did show the great things Jobs accomplished along with his misgivings. There were a few parts that were weak, like when Jobs zen master talked about Jobs, it was hard to understand, Gibney should have used subtitles.
Gibney was a bit critical about Jobs first girlfriend, Chrisanne Brennan, who said Jobs blew it by saying Jobs produced some of the most successful products that everyone loved. Well that isn't exactly true, I never owned an Apple product until recently and never fell in love with a consumer gadget. The point was she was making that Gibney missed that as a spiritual seeker who Jobs was in his youth, he wanted peace and love in the world, but what he became was a cold hearted business person who valued products over people.
Some have said that he mellowed out and changed over time, but it was very clear he did not. He was responsible for illegal backdating of options, but let others take the blame. Didn't seem to care much about workers in China committing suicide, did away with Apple's corporate philanthropy even when it had huge cash reserves, entered into illegal agreements not to poach workers for rivals, abused his power by having police search a Gizmodo reporters house for a prototype Iphone, lied at his Stanford graduation ceremony about when his doctors detected cancer that he got it treated immediately when in fact he thought he was smarter than his doctors and waited 9 months and didn't disclose his health issues to the board of this large listed company.
I liked the author's conclusion at the end. To answer his question about why people cared so much about Steve Jobs, a man they never met, was really more a question about those who worshipped Jobs and Apple products rather than Steve Jobs himself who was a flawed individual.
I have read some at Apple were critical of this film even though they may not have seen it. I found this to be very objective and balanced, it did show the great things Jobs accomplished along with his misgivings. There were a few parts that were weak, like when Jobs zen master talked about Jobs, it was hard to understand, Gibney should have used subtitles.
Gibney was a bit critical about Jobs first girlfriend, Chrisanne Brennan, who said Jobs blew it by saying Jobs produced some of the most successful products that everyone loved. Well that isn't exactly true, I never owned an Apple product until recently and never fell in love with a consumer gadget. The point was she was making that Gibney missed that as a spiritual seeker who Jobs was in his youth, he wanted peace and love in the world, but what he became was a cold hearted business person who valued products over people.
Some have said that he mellowed out and changed over time, but it was very clear he did not. He was responsible for illegal backdating of options, but let others take the blame. Didn't seem to care much about workers in China committing suicide, did away with Apple's corporate philanthropy even when it had huge cash reserves, entered into illegal agreements not to poach workers for rivals, abused his power by having police search a Gizmodo reporters house for a prototype Iphone, lied at his Stanford graduation ceremony about when his doctors detected cancer that he got it treated immediately when in fact he thought he was smarter than his doctors and waited 9 months and didn't disclose his health issues to the board of this large listed company.
I liked the author's conclusion at the end. To answer his question about why people cared so much about Steve Jobs, a man they never met, was really more a question about those who worshipped Jobs and Apple products rather than Steve Jobs himself who was a flawed individual.