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I don’t think there was any way to detect a chip on my shoulder.

Did you know, back at Bandley the Mac team gave an award every year to the person who could stand up to you?

No.

I won.

Three years in a row.

Cool.

This. This.

This Guy Kawasaki in Macworld.

He accidentally got it right, didn’t he?

You’ve been dragging your feet on the NeXT OS

until you can figure out what Apple’s going to need.

Even if that were true, it doesn’t sound that diabolical to me.

Hey. We’re ready for you!

I’m your closest confidante, your best friend.

Your thing. What do you call it?

Your “work wife.”

The whole time! The last three years.

When did you change your mind and start building the Steve Jobs Revenge Machine?

House to half.

Do you remember Skylab?

It was an unmanned satellite NASA sent up in the early ’70s on a data-gathering mission.

The thing is, when they sent it up,

they didn’t know yet how they were going to get it back.

But they felt like they were close enough

that in the eight years it was going to be up there, they’d figure it out.

They’re on their way now.

They didn’t.

So, after eight years, it came crashing down in a 1,000-mile swath across the Indian Ocean.

A little to the left, a little to the right, somebody could have gotten hurt.

I really wanted to build a computer for colleges.

The technology just didn’t catch up as fast as I needed it to.

And you know we’re out of money.

Ladies and gentlemen, the program will be starting momentarily.

But then, Apple stopped innovating, and I saw something better.

Joanna, I know schools aren’t going to buy a $13,000 dictionary with good speakers.

You know I know that.

But Apple will.

Because Avie Tevanian is going to build them exactly the OS they need.

They’re going to have to buy me, too.

For half a billion dollars in stock, and end-to-end control on every product.

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome.

More than a year after it was first unveiled to industry insiders, the NeXT Computer is finally available in stores.

And it appears to be two strikes in a row for Steve Jobs.

Students and educators are finding it difficult to justify the machine’s high cost.

So much for the Black Cube.

NeXT just sold its factory to Canon, and laid off half its employees.

In the world of computers, it’s kill or be killed.

Apple Computer has fallen on hard times.

It is laying off about 2,500 people.

Apple is continuing to lose market share with no new innovations in the pipeline except the Newton, a pet project of CEO John Sculley.

If you really want to be mobile, you want a Newton PDA.

But, then again, maybe you don’t.

It turns handwriting into computer text.

Hey, Dolph, take a memo on your Newton. “Beat up Martin.”

In 1980, Apple had 30% of the market.

Today, Apple has only 3.2%.

That’s it. John Sculley has been fired from Apple.

And what about this internet thing?

Do you know anything about that?

Uh, it is the big, new thing.

Rumors are flying around Apple Computer once again,

over who will take over the helm.

In the news at this hour, a remarkable high-tech reunion.

Well, it’s happening In a billion-dollar shake-up,

Apple is purchasing NeXT Computer’s

operating system, which may mean.

ls the prodigal son returning? Bet on it.

Guess what. Mac is back.

Apple co-founder Steven Jobs.

Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs.

Steve Jobs is returning to Apple.

If you want to beam your digital photographs from your digital camera,

it’s built into every product. We’re going to the new generation of I/O.

12-megabyte USB. Two ports.

We’re leaving the old Apple I/O behind.

Stereo surround sound built into every product.

A great keyboard, and the coolest mouse you’ve ever seen.

This time, we used actual mice.

We’re opening the house in 10 minutes. Steven?

Do you want to stop horsing around?

Bless my eyes.

That’s Steve Wozniak, sitting out there.

Give yourselves a treat and ask Woz if he happens to have the correct time.

I have the correct time, and we’re running out of it.

A great keyboard A great keyboard and the coolest mouse you’ve ever seen.

This is what those things look like today.

And now, I’d like to show you what they’re going to look like tomorrow.

This is the iMac.

That was cool.

Why did I like that better than I usually do?

I don’t know. Something was different.

Hey, stupid!

I think she’s talking to one of you guys.

• Did you notice a difference? - That’s what I’m.

The exit signs were off.

Full blackout.

You did it!

We wired all the exit lights to our board.

They go out with the cue for seven seconds, then come back on again, in theory.

We think that’s legal?

No, we’re very certain it’s not.

You want to see some quotes?

Let’s hold off on those. No, he’ll like them.

I’ll show them to you later.

I’ll take them now.

I’m sorry.

Pick it up from there, please.

We only have a couple of minutes, so let’s just do the 360.

We’re going to bring out a wireless camera we stole from Panasonic.

I’ll show you what this looks like.

The whole thing is translucent. You can see into it.

How’s that for a compromise, Woz?

You still can’t get into it, but you can see into it.

Fair enough.

We put stereo speakers in front, infrared right up here.

CD-ROM drive in the middle.

Nice.

Dual stereo headphone jacks,

and all the connectors are inside one beautiful little door, here.

Ethernet, USB.

Even though this is a full-blooded Macintosh, we’re targeting it for the number-one use the consumers tell us they want a computer for Which is.

• Let’s hold it, please!

Hold it.

The answer was “the Internet.”

• Joanna? - Yeah.

Just stand in front of me.

I want to look at these quotes, but I don’t want Joel to know.

They’re all great.

“It is not only the coolest-looking computer introduced in years,

“but a chest-thumping statement

“that Silicon Valley’s original dream company is no longer somnambulant.”

• It’s a word It means “sleepwalking.”

• Steve?

I’m sorry, we have to clear the house if we’re going to start on time.

We’re absolutely starting on time. We’re going to start on time.

Here, take this.

Everybody, that’s it.

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

I love you guys.

Andy, come on back a minute.

• Which one? - Hertzfeld.

Forbes calls it an industry-altering success.

Look here.

Why haven’t we ever slept together?

We’re not in love. Look.

Sculley.

Look what he said.

He has implemented the same simple strategy that made Apple so successful 15 years ago.

“Make hit products and promote them with terrific marketing.”

That was nice of him.

It was.

I meant it.

Sightings of JD Salinger are more common than John Sculley.

I wasn’t being sarcastic. It was nice of him.

Do you talk to him?

No.

You haven’t talked to him since ‘88?

I’d have told you if I did.

Doesn’t matter.

I don’t want people thinking they can cross me

and then, boom, 15 years later, I’m cool with it.

I was kidding.

What’s wrong with you this morning?

Let’s get off the stage.

“The only thing Apple’s providing now is leadership in colors.”

Don’t worry about it.

What does Bill Gates have against me?

I don’t know. You’re both out of your minds.

Listen to me.

He dropped out of a better school than I dropped out of.

But he’s a tool bag I’ll tell you why.

Make everything all right with Lisa.

You know, Joanna Boundaries.

You’ve come to my apartment at 1:00 a.m. and cleaned it.

So tell me where the boundary is.

There. Let’s say it’s there.

If I give you some real projections,

will you promise not to repeat them from the stage?

What do you mean, “Real projections”?

What have you been giving me?

Conservative projections.

Marketing’s been lying to me?

We’ve been managing expectations so that you don’t not.

What are the real projections?

We’re going to sell a million units in the first 90 days.

20,000 a month after that.

• Holy shit! - Yeah.

You see? You wait long enough, and.

What’s more, 32% of the sales

are going to go to people buying a computer for the first time.

And 12% are going to people using some kind of Windows machine.

That’s what Bill Gates has against you.

And it’ll be the fastest-selling computer in history.

You brought the company back from life support after going through the misery of laying off 3,000 people and cutting 70% of the product line.

So, Steven, it’s over.

You’re going to win.

It would be criminal not to enjoy this moment.

I’m enjoying it.

Make things all right with Lisa.

• You know. - Come on.

I don’t like having less privacy than other people have.

Does being a multi-billionaire take some of the sting off that?

No.

All Lisa did. All Lisa did was give her blessing.

Chrisann sold the house and.

And Lisa could have done what?

How was she supposed to stop her mother from selling her own house?

That I bought for the two of them.

How was she supposed to stop her?

Voicing an objection would have been a step in the right direction.

You don’t think you’re having a bizarre overreaction

to a 19-year-old girl allowing her mother to list her own house?

She could’ve tried.

How is she supposed to stop her mother, that particular mother.

She gave Chrisann her blessing to sell the house, and she did it to spite me!

I don’t care if she put a pipe bomb in the water heater!

You’re going to fix it, now.

She’s been acting weird for months She’s turned on me.

• Fix it. - What the.

• Fix it, Steve. - Take it easy!

Fix it or I quit. How about that?

I quit and you never see me again. How about that?

Tell me what’s wrong with you this morning.

What’s been wrong with me for 19 years.

I’ve been a witness, and I tell you I’ve been complicit.

I love you, Steve. You know how much.

I love that you don’t care how much money a person makes,

you care what they make.

But what you make isn’t supposed to be the best part of you.

When you’re a father,

that’s what’s supposed to be the best part of you.

And it’s caused me two decades of agony, Steve, that it is for you the worst.

It’s a little thing. It’s a very small thing.

Fix it.

Fix it now, or you can contact me at my new job,

working anywhere I want.

I don’t happen to think it is a little deal.

• She knew that. - No.

• I bought the house for the two of. - No.

What do you mean, “No”? I mean, no.

The house has nothing to do with why you’re angry at Lisa.

I assure you, the house has everything to do with why I’m angry at Lisa.

Have you ever heard the phrase “reality distortion field”?

Yes.

As in, “Steve’s reality distortion field”?

• I’ve heard it. - I’ve read it.

It’s been sung to me by Joan Baez.

What you call a reality distortion field,

and I’m pretty sure you’re the one who coined the phrase,

is the reason we’re here.

I know that.

If I traded in my bank account for a dollar every time somebody told me something was impossible, I’d come out ahead.

I know that, too. What’s the problem?

My problem? It sure isn’t the house.

Jo, I.

It’s that you told her you weren’t going to pay for Harvard.

That child. That earnest, un-ironic kid.

She told you I wasn’t paying her tuition?

I should have hit you with something heavy a long time ago.

Lisa told you I wasn’t paying her tuition?

Andy told me that.

Which one?

Hertzfeld.

How would Hertzfeld know?

He wrote Harvard a check for $25,000 to cover the semester.

Are you fucking.

He paid her tuition?

Isn’t that why you just asked to see him?

No, I asked to see him about something.

Did you tell her you weren’t going to pay for college?

Yes, because. How could you do that?

Because her mother, who is also her landlord.

Hertzfeld? I was ranting!

I was just talking! You think I would.

I was pissed off because Lisa was trying to piss me off, Joanna.

That was her intent!

You obviously scared the hell out of her!

• Hertzfeld wrote a check to Harvard. - Pay for.

Is she here yet?

I’m sure she is.

Can you have someone bring her back?

Yes.

Thank you.

You know,

my grandmother always used to say to me I don’t give a shit, Yentl.

I’ll have someone get Lisa. Thank you.

And if you see Hertzfeld.

It’s Andy!

Speak of the devil’s chief engineer.

Go. Come on in.

You look great today.

• Thank you. - Doesn’t she?

She looks fantastic. Always does.

Get out.

Well, I think I know why I’m here.

• Do you? - Steve.

Did you send the check yet?

Yes.

So Harvard got a tuition check from Andy Hertzfeld to pay for Lisa?

I don’t think they look that carefully.

I don’t think they’d notice the check didn’t come from you.

Close one.

This was almost embarrassing for me.

I understand how. I’ll wire you the money today.

I understand how you feel. And I do apologize, I do.

But, let me tell you my thinking.

I can’t even think of an appropriate analogy to describe what you did.

I knew you guys would fix things. You always do.

But in the meantime, if the money wasn’t there, she’d miss a semester of school.

Yeah.

And she’d have to tell her friends why.

And she needed things. She needed socks.

What?

It’s cold in Cambridge. She needed warm socks.

You gave her socks?

Well, I gave her money for socks.

You don’t get to deputize yourself as her interim.

You don’t get to override my decisions. Do you understand?

You don’t get to act like you’re her father.

Somebody had to.

What the fuck did you just say to me?

I’ve known her since she was six.

I also consider.

Chrisann’s my friend, outside of what you and I.

Outside of our relationship.

So you’re like a family advisor.

I’m a family friend.

Then you probably know that Lisa’s been seeing a therapist.

Yeah.

• For many years. - Yeah.

Without my knowledge.

That really wasn’t my business.

I’m fascinated by what you think is and isn’t your business.

Lisa’s been going to a therapist, and she likes it.

And would love for you and Chrisann to go with her.

And the reason you know that is because you’re the one that recommended the therapist.

Well, I know a guy.

No, I mean you’re the one who recommended that she see a therapist.

You know what?

It was a while ago, and I don’t remember how the whole.

You told Chrisann that Lisa should see a therapist.

Steve, you’re stigmatizing. It’s a perfectly norm.

It’s not. My thing was, how can it hurt?

Let’s find out.

Chrisann is my friend.

What was the reason you gave?

You mean.

What was the reason you gave Chrisann why Lisa should see a therapist?

I don’t remember. We were talking and I said.

It’s pretty much what I just said,

that it certainly couldn’t hurt.

You didn’t say that Lisa needed a strong male role model?