Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has taken to Facebook to talk about all that’s good and all that’s bad with the new Steve Jobs movie. Woz also touches upon the early days of Apple and John Sculley’s leadership, which helped save the original Macintosh — and Apple.
After Robert Scoble took to Facebook to highlight Woz’s positive comments of the new Steve Jobs movie starring Michael Fassbender, Woz himself showed up to elaborate on the feedback he had already given to Deadline.
Woz has said that he was impressed by the accuracy of the new movie, which is written by Aaron Sorkin and directed by Danny Boyle — but it isn’t without its faults. Some of the scenes in it never took place in real life, while other events are missing.
“There are issues in the movie that were real but they were presented [as] myself and Andy talking to Jobs, while they never happened that way,” Woz explains. “The conversations I have with Jobs in the movie never took place but they represent issues that were real and probably came out in other ways, to and from Jobs.”
Some of the other conversations in the movie, which involve Woz criticizing the original Macintosh launch and Jobs’ NeXT business, “never happened,” Woz adds — at least not between Woz and Jobs. “But you have to put the issues of the time into someone’s voice and I was chosen.”
What Woz really likes about the Steve Jobs movie is that “it really depicts a significant part of Jobs and his personality in very believable ways.” Woz feels that the Jobs played by Fassbender is a lot like the real Jobs in many ways, and adds that the acting and direction is excellent.
“Although the story is debatable (and I’d have some negatives to add to parts) it is so well presented that you will all be glad to see THIS movie about Jobs.”
In later comments on Scoble’s Facebook post, Woz goes on to credit John Sculley for believing in the Macintosh and working hard — along with everyone else at Apple — to make it as successful “in dollars” as the Apple II.
Woz adds that Jobs was never pushed out of Apple — he left — and that while he always “supported him in his belief that he was made to create computers,” Jobs’ creations up until this point had been mostly failures.
However, Jobs would never blame himself for those failures. For instance, LISA cost too much, and Jobs blamed the Apple engineers for not making it cheaper, even though “Steve didn’t know computers and what it would take to make the right good machine.”
“Steve felt it was the fault of lousy engineers who couldn’t find shortcuts. He would walk into meetings and tell engineers and teams that they were idiots and walk out.”
Thanks to Jobs’ marketing skills, however, Apple II sales helped finance the failures of Apple III, LISA, Macintosh, and NeXT, Woz says — and this isn’t highlighted in the movie.
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