Caught it on demand over the weekend. Didn't hate it. I actually enjoyed watching it like a history lesson (not the details, mind you, but the big picture timeline of the Apple early years).
Not the best of movies. Jumped through time too much, with characters appearing and disappearing through eras without much explanation. I couldn't tell if this was because they thought the details of his life were such common knowledge that they didn't have to connect the dots (i.e. his daughter suddenly living with him as a teenager) or it was just shoddy direction/writing.
I think Kutcher did a good job, though, of trying to show Steve Jobs, warts and all. He was not likable at all, yet he was strangely magnetic.
Wife loved it but she did say, "My God, did anyone in the IT revolution get rich without screwing over their partners or actual creators of the product?"
We watched it too. I guess it's Hollywood and all but I was surprised at some of the stuff in there. They start out with the iPod and again as I posted before, all Jobs did was recognize it could be done better, it already existed(a digital music player) they just made it better and iTunes was the key. That whole thing with jobs on his Walkman is garbage, Fadell was hired as a consultant to finish a product he'd already started, Apple hired him to finish the iPod, Jobs did not invent that product. They don't even use Fadell's name in the movie at the very beginning they made up a name I can't even recall what it was.
I also thought the characterization of Bill Atkinson was interesting. He was at Magic too, let's just say a very "interesting" guy. He went on "sabbatical" and never came back. Then later his wife went on Sabbatical and never came back. In both cases it was because of complaints filed, one by a female employee, one by a male prospective employee, both involved inappropriate comments and it was widely known throughout the company. They apparently had an "open marriage" and thought that meant the whole company was their singles bar.
Hertzfeld came off as very naive in the movie, he was younger but the guy was absolutely brilliant and EXTREMELY self confident at Magic, I really can't picture him responding to the are you good question by saying I think so. He was one of those our software is better, people might not get that but that's their problem not ours kind of people.
I'm also fairly certain they screwed up the timeline on the return of Jobs. They had him returning to the Apple Headquarters in Cupertino near the freeway, I am fairly certain when he came back the group he was in was actually at the site on Stevens Creek further down. I'm fairly certain that's how Amelio was blindsided by the whole thing Jobs was working in a completely different set of buildings gaining power without Amelio being there to see it.
he did save that company though he was smart enough to recognize they needed to round file everything but a few products.
I liked the movie, I was surprised how well Kutcher pulled it off.
