The story is about the two personal computer companies Apple Computer Corporation and Mircosoft Inc. It shows their battle for corporate supremacy. Biographical look about the men who founded Apple and Microsoft and a look at a the early days of the companies.
In Berkeley campus 1976, Jobs and Wozniak unveil their latest computer. It is obvious that while it is Wozniak's genius that built the computer and it's Jobs' genius that sells it. During this scene, Jobs want to wipe out the enemy IBM. Job was undaunted and persevered when a venture capitalist Mike Markkula offered a fledgling Apple computers a quarter of a million dollars to do something.
In Albuquerque, 1976, Bill and Paul had quit Harvard and Bill's fast talking at the computer company MITS (maker of the ALTAIR) earned them a signing
bonus and a double in royalties for their BASIC programming language,
with that, Microsoft is born. It is during these years in Albuquerque,
fueled by his own manic personality that Bill does everything from
having a midnight race with bulldozers, to racking up so many speeding
tickets that he is arrested and jailed.
At this point Microsoft is desperately trying to cobble together the
Windows operating system from pirated Macintosh software. Word of this
eventually reached Jobs more than once, but no matter how angry or
accusatory Steve became, Bill could always calmly explain away any such
fears, weathering any of Steve's tirades meekly, placating Steve into,
once again, believing that Microsoft was no threat, a level of
manipulation that Steve Ballmer felt was where Bill Gates' true genius
lay. Then again, Ballmer felt that Jobs' genius lay in making computers
not a business, but a religion, and nothing scared him more.
During the penultimate scene of the movie, Steve Jobs introduces an Apple T-shirt wearing Bill Gates as a part of the Apple family to an audience of Apple employees before giving them a sneak preview of the Apple 1984 commercial that was being filmed in the open scene. After the sneak preview, Steve was given concrete proof that Microsoft did replicated software from the Macintosh and when he confronted Bill with it, Gates famously replies with, "You and I are both like guys who had this rich neighbor - Xerox - who left the door open all the time. And you go sneakin' in to steal a TV set. Only when you get there, you realize that I got there first. I got the loot, Steve! And you're yellin'? "That's not fair. I wanted to try to steal it first." You're too late."
The end of the movie relates the sad facts that Steve Jobs had disaffected so many of his former best friends that none of them wanted to toast him for his 30th birthday, in fact, three months later Steve Jobs was fired from the company he helped found. He was later re-hired in 1997 and became the architect of the second Apple Microsoft co-endeavor bringing the companies and the movie full circle.
During the penultimate scene of the movie, Steve Jobs introduces an Apple T-shirt wearing Bill Gates as a part of the Apple family to an audience of Apple employees before giving them a sneak preview of the Apple 1984 commercial that was being filmed in the open scene. After the sneak preview, Steve was given concrete proof that Microsoft did replicated software from the Macintosh and when he confronted Bill with it, Gates famously replies with, "You and I are both like guys who had this rich neighbor - Xerox - who left the door open all the time. And you go sneakin' in to steal a TV set. Only when you get there, you realize that I got there first. I got the loot, Steve! And you're yellin'? "That's not fair. I wanted to try to steal it first." You're too late."
The end of the movie relates the sad facts that Steve Jobs had disaffected so many of his former best friends that none of them wanted to toast him for his 30th birthday, in fact, three months later Steve Jobs was fired from the company he helped found. He was later re-hired in 1997 and became the architect of the second Apple Microsoft co-endeavor bringing the companies and the movie full circle.
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