Monday, October 5, 2015




Four years after Steve Jobss death, a new movie is reopening a debate over the Apple Inc. co-founders legacy.




Tim Cook was awarded the Human Rights Campaigns prestigious Visibility Award last night.

Its hard to watch his acceptance speech on the anniversary of Steve Jobs deathalmost to the dayand not think about how much Apple has changed in four years.

Not in terms of Apples business model. Not in terms of the kinds of products it brings to market. But in terms of Apples public persona.



Im talking about the things Tim Cook has done that its hard to imagine Steve Jobs doing, no matter how long he lived.



1) Come out as gay, march in a LGBT-rights parade, win a civil rights visibility award.

2) Name two women and a black man to Apples (8-member) board of directors.

3) Pick a fight with the President and the FBI over strong cryptography.

4) Take a public stand on racial justice, immigration reform and privacy rights.

5) Commit the company to carbon neutrality and supplier responsibility.

6) Lobby congressmen in their offices, testify before U.S. senators.

7) Return $200 billion to Apples shareholders and borrow the money to do it.




Film : 


Mr. Jobss allies, led by his widow, Laurene Powell Jobs, say the film Steve Jobs, and other recent depictions, play down his accomplishments and paint Mr. Jobs as cruel and inhumane. Ms. Jobs repeatedly tried to kill the film, according to people familiar with the conversations. She lobbied, among others, Sony Pictures Entertainment, which developed the script but passed on the movie for financial reasons, and Comcast Corp.s Universal Pictures, which is releasing the $33.5 million production on Friday(9 Oct 2015).


A whole generation is going to think of him in a different way if they see a movie that depicts him in a negative way, said Bill Campbell, a longtime Apple board member and friend of Mr. Jobs. Mr. Campbell hasn't seen the film.

The Hollywood-Silicon Valley sparring echoes that over The Social Network, the 2010 film about Mark Zuckerberg and the rise of Facebook Inc. Facebook sought and won script changes. Mr. Zuckerberg later said the movie made up a bunch of stuff that I found kind of hurtful.












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