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Focus seems kind of sharp.

On the slide?

The floor The pin spot.

I think we want a sharp focus.

Don’t take it personally Just not a fan of the circus aesthetic.

All right, let’s hold here.

We’re gonna have to go up and refocus the instruments.

Just one, the 30 is fine.

While we’re holding, there are well-wishers in the VIP room.

And Woz is here.

Steve Wozniak.

Yes, hey, thank you very much.

And Andy Hertzfeld.

Andy Hertzfeld.

Thank you.

John Sculley is here, too.

It’s nice that he’s here.

Really?

I don’t think it’s very nice at all.

You have to see them.

They wanna pay their respects.

If they were respectful, we’d all still be at Apple right now.

Look.

If they really wished me well, they’d keep it to themselves.

Can I tell you something?

I don’t think they do wish me well.

But I’m all right with that I’m over Apple.

I got over the Mac, and Woz and Sculley, the same way you get over your high-school sweetheart.

Build a new one.

Can I tell you something?

Yes.

You said you wouldn’t compete with them, but you designed a computer specifically for the education market, which they putatively own.

So, I think it’s cool they’re here.

They’re suing me.

Still.

It was nice they came.

They’re not being magnanimous.

They want it to look like an amicable divorce.

History doesn’t remember Joe DiMaggio kindly for dumping Marilyn.

Steve.

What’s your problem?

I don’t know, but I’m sure it can be traced back to you.

You know, I’m the one who has to explain you to people.

$100,000 to Paul Rand for a corporate logo, when we didn’t even know what our company made.

A $650,000 mold for the Cube because God forbid the angles be 90.1 instead of 90.

I forbid the angles to be 90.1 instead of 90.

That box could be on display at the Guggenheim.

Don’t give them reason to say to the press you have a chip on your shoulder.

Will you do that for me?

I don’t have a chip on my shoulder.

Okay, okay.

But don’t give them a reason to say you do.

I don’t.

That’s the right attitude.

That’s not an attitude.

They’re gonna call me back in a minute to look at the light.

Get one out of the way.

Fine!

Yeah?

Yeah.

One more thing.

Sure.

No questions from the press after.

No?

Why?

Until I have better answers, no press avail.

If somebody asks where I am, you just saw me, and I’ll be right back.

Okay.

Who do you want first?

Bring me the face of Steve Wozniak.

Hang on.

I thought you went to school.

Hang on.

You were supposed to go to school an hour ago I thought you left.

I didn’t wake up my mom on time this morning.

It’s happened before, too.

I wake up with the alarm, and then I get dressed and eat breakfast, but sometimes I forget to see what time it is after that.

Why doesn’t your mom just set her own alarm clock?

It’s one of my chores.

I don’t understand what that has to do with why you’re still.

Where’s your mother?

She went to find a payphone.

An hour ago, she said.

You don’t have to raise your hand.

You said it was off by a little.

It is.

I just measured it.

Joanna.

Exactly a foot on all four sides.

There are six sides. But you’re not supposed be here right now.

We know if four of the sides are equal to each other, the other two must be equal as well.

The top, bottom, right, and left are about a millimeter shorter than the front and back.

They’re not, I measured them.

Lisa, I’m kind of an expert in design.

And that’s a 20-cent ruler. You think there’s a chance it could be off?

If I had another ruler, I would measure this ruler, but I really doubt it’s off.

When your mother comes back, you have to go to school Because it’s a ruler!

Why is it off?

Did you hear what I just said?

Yes.

Because sometimes it seems like you just keep saying what you want without listening.

I’m listening.

Is there something you need?

No.

Why isn’t it a perfect cube?

You’ve asked me before. I forget what it is.

It’s an optical anomaly.

To the human eye, a perfect cube doesn’t look like a cube, so we made it roughly a millimeter shorter than a foot on two sides.

What’s an anomaly?

You’ve asked me that before, too.

I don’t know why you keep doing that.

It’s an exception. Something that doesn’t fit a pattern.

You have to go to school. Come in!

I think you two have met.

Hello, old friend.

You look well.

So do you.

So do you.

And they’re telling me George is ready for you to look at the focus.

Take a walk with me.

Is this Lisa?

Yeah.

This can’t be Lisa.

It is.

Lisa’s this big.

They get taller.

Come on.

Do you remember me?

She doesn’t.

I’m your dad’s friend, Steve Wozniak.

I apologize, I don’t remember you.

You’re very polite.

Woz?

Yeah.

Chrisann’s at a payphone.

Would you find her?

Yeah.

Good turnout.

Great turnout.

Yeah.

“Insanely great.”

Insanely great.

You know, this is the first time we haven’t played for the same team.

It’s like you’re releasing your first solo album.

I appreciate your inviting me to the launch.

I just want to wipe the slate clean.

That’s exactly what I want.

That’s why I came backstage.

I want you to know I’ll be out there with you.

Any chance I can get you to go out there instead of me?

I love you, Steve.

I love you, too, Woz.

You know, some things were said.

They were They were said in public.

They were published.

Were you pressured to do it?

Was I what?

Check it out.

It’s the orchestra pit for the San Francisco Opera.

Was I pressured to do it?

I once met Seiji Ozawa at Tanglewood.

A thunderous conductor.

Godly artfulness and nuance.

And I asked him what exactly a conductor does that a metronome can’t.

Surprisingly, he.

He didn’t beat the living shit out of you?

That’s right.

No, he said, “The musicians play their instruments.

“I play the orchestra.”

That feels like something that sounds good, but doesn’t mean anything.

Markkula, Sculley They ask you to slag me off in the press?

I had reason to be angry.

Did they?

Absolutely not.

But they asked you to talk.

Apple was under siege, you’d just left the company.

Someone had to talk to the press.

I’m right here, Woz The company left me.

I begged you. I begged you.

The Apple II accounted for 70% of the revenue.

What did you think was gonna happen?

You didn’t care enough about the Apple II or the Lisa.

Let’s be really clear.

I didn’t care at all about the Apple II or the Lisa.

I wasn’t pressured to do it.

What I said to the press was an honest, if tempered, reflection of what I believed.

Woz.

Yeah?

What the fuck is on your wrist?

You wanna know?

I literally can’t wait.

Everyone’s gonna be wearing these in 10 years.

It’s a Nixie Watch, made using Nixie tubes.

This is actually 40-year-old technology.

Cold-cathode tubes.

They’re operating at 140 volts.

I tilt my wrist 45 degrees, it’s right there.

Hours, minutes, and seconds.

The way our minds work.

Look at that.

Do me a favor Set the watch ahead like you’re on a plane and just changed time zones.

Not a problem.

Unscrew that, just hit the button.

Excuse me, flight attendant, the man next to me would appear to be detonating a bomb.

You think this looks like a bomb.

Even right now, I’m not 100% sure it isn’t.

I think maybe once people get used to it.

No.

I was angry.

You were saying things about the Apple II, and the way you were treating the team.

Woz.

You get a free pass for life.

I got to get back onstage.

We got, like, two minutes of rehearsal time left.

Do you understand how condescending that just was?

Maybe you don’t.

I don’t want to see you get dragged off an airplane in plastic handcuffs.

I get a free pass for life from you?

You give out the passes?

You give them to me?

You’re gonna have a stroke, little buddy.

What did you do?

Why has Lisa not heard of me?

Shit, man, how many fourth-graders have heard of you?

You can’t write code You’re not an engineer You’re not a designer.

You can’t put a hammer to a nail.

I built the circuit board.

The graphical interface was stolen from Xerox PARC.

Jef Raskin was the leader of the Mac team before you threw him off his own project.

Everything Someone else designed the box.

So, how come 10 times in a day I read “Steve Jobs is a genius”?

What do you do?

I play the orchestra.

And you’re a good musician

You sit right there.

You’re the best in your row.

I came here to clear the air!

Do you know why I came here?

Didn’t you just answer that?

I came here because you’re gonna get killed.

Your computer’s gonna fail.

You had a college and university advisory board telling you they need a powerful workstation for $2,000 to $3,000.

You’ve priced NeXT at $6,500.

And that doesn’t include the optional $3,000 hard drive, which people will discover isn’t optional Because the optical disk is too weak to do anything.

And the $2,500 laser printer brings the total to $12,000.

And, in the entire world, you are the only person who cares that it’s housed in a perfect cube.

You’re gonna get killed.

And I came here to stand next to you while that happens because that’s what friends do.

That’s what men do.

I don’t need your “pass.”

We go back, so don’t talk to me like I’m other people.

I’m the only one that knows that this guy here is someone you invented.

I’m standing by you because that perfect cube, that does nothing, is about to be the single biggest failure in the history of personal computing.

Tell me something else I don’t know.

Back onstage?

We’re out of time.

They’ve got to mop the stage and open the house.

If it crashes, it crashes, right?

You’ll make a joke.

I’ll make a joke.

If it crashes, it crashes.

It’s a good slogan. NeXT If it crashes, it crashes.”

I’m not just talking about the demo, Steve.

If it tanks, we don’t swallow cyanide.

We go back to the drawing board.

No more drawing boards.

Invent the Edsel twice, you don’t get any more drawing boards.

Tell me what the plan is.

You have to tell me the plan, because I don’t know.

You’re walking around like you’ve got “can’t lose” cards.

The plan will reveal itself to you when you’re ready to see it.

Will I have to drop acid?

Couldn’t hurt.

Is there a plan?

Have I ever let you down?

Every single goddamn time.

Then I’m due.

Is there?

Joanna, there’s a plan.

I just don’t wanna put you in a position where you’re lying to people.

Start 15 minutes late so Avie can recompile and give us a fighting chance.

Jesus Christ!

How many times are we gonna have this.

We’re not starting late ever!

Fine!

We’re not ever starting late ever starting late.

But where do you come down on starting late?

Lisa’s been doing this thing where she asks me about stuff I’ve already told her.

She asks me questions, and I know she already knows the answers.

What’s that about?

Kids do that when they’re scared one of their parents is in a bad mood.

They try to get you talking about something you like.

It’s very common and can be treated by talking to her about things she likes.

Do you have any experience or training in this field?

No.

Tell them to open the house.

Where’s Lisa?

She’s around.

What does that mean?

She’s running around the building.

An hour ago, you said you were taking her to school.

She begged me to let her stay.

There are fathers who would so love.

It is wrong, okay?

It is morally wrong, it’s parentally wrong.

It is wrong for you to use Lisa as a way of getting money from me.

She’ll know, if she doesn’t already, that that is your primary use for her.

And she will hate you for the rest of your life.

She will see, if she doesn’t already, that her mother is a woman who stands up to men.

By living off of them.

By not letting myself be imprisoned and degraded by them.

Imprisoned? I can’t get rid of you.

I need a doctor, and I need a dentist.

I dropped out of college after a semester, but, okay, let’s have a look.

You will support your daughter and her mother.

Did you pay someone $1,500 to bless your house?

Did you hear what I said?

Did you?

I don’t remember how much it was, Steve.

It was $1,500.

They don’t do it for free.

They don’t.

They charge $1,500.

How I spend.

Fuck.

You know what I’m not even.

Were you about to say, “How I spend my money is none of your business”?

I have a sinus infection, and I need to see a dentist, too.

So you can see how your “blessing” budget could have been better spent.

Like on a perfect cube?

Look at me, Chrisann.

What?

You know who I am, right?

Yes.

And you know I know people.

What are you talking about?

Look at me.

And you know the people I know, they know people.

What is this?

If I ever hear again that you’ve thrown a cereal bowl at Lisa’s head

What?

my private line’s gonna ring.

And a voice on the other end is gonna say, “We’re all set.”

That’s how I’ll learn that you’re dead.

Are you.

I threw the bowl on the floor.

I didn’t throw it at her head.

She wasn’t even in the room!

She was nowhere.

I threw the bowl on the floor.

She’s a little girl You’re scaring her.

I’m a grown man You’re scaring me.

Taking out the garbage is a chore.

Clearing the table is a chore.

Waking you up in the morning is just fucking creepy.

Please teach me more about being a parent.

We’re all done here.

It means so much coming from someone who won’t admit he is one.

Stop screaming at Lisa.

I give her responsibilities!

Got it.

And one day she’s gonna thank me for it!

Probably in your sleep.

Fuck off!

Okay.

I never I never threw anything at her head!

Steve.

I never would.

Things don’t become so because you say so.

There’ll be more money in your account by the end of business.