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I did.

I think it’s a miracle she’s not robbing banks

with the Symbionese Liberation Army.

There is no reason in the world why she should be nice.

But she is.

So I helped.

Because somebody had to.

I’ll wire the money to you this afternoon.

You threatened me a long time ago.

Sorry?

A long time ago, you threatened me once.

People are attracted to people with talent.

People without it find that threatening.

Maybe you should see a therapist. Certainly couldn’t hurt.

I meant you literally threatened me.

At Flint, right before the Mac launch.

I was recompiling. I was trying to debug the voice demo.

And you said if I couldn’t find a solution,

you’d call me out in front of the audience.

Did it say “hello”?

It did.

No need to thank me.

Why do you want people to dislike you?

I don’t want people to dislike me.

I’m indifferent to whether they dislike me.

Since it doesn’t matter, I always have.

Really?

I’ve always liked you a lot.

That’s too bad.

Knock ‘em dead.

Thank you.

What is remarkable, what’s hard to fathom but true

is that for a given clock rate, a PowerPC chip

is twice as fast as a Pentium II chip.

In other words, a 266 megahertz G3 chip

is twice as fast as a 266 megahertz Pentium II.

Or…

a 266 G3 is equal to about 500 megahertz.

Take a look at BYTE magazine’s BYTE Marks, the gold standard for any…

Come in.

I sent someone into the lobby. They found her and she…

Where is she?

She said she’d rather not come back.

Why?

That was it.

I’m going out there myself. You can’t.

You can’t. It’ll be a scene out of Hard Day’s Night.

Excuse me?

Hey, Joel.

Andy said it was okay to come back.

• Which one? - Andy Cunningham.

I can’t do this forever.

I need one of them to change their name.

You call Andy Cunningham “Andrea.”

It doesn’t matter what I call them.

I know who I’m talking about when I’m talking.

I need everyone else to call them different names.

Give me one second.

Can you go get her for me, please?

I just talked to Andy Hertzfeld.

I’m just trying to scrub this out of my brain with Drano.

But I do want to talk to Lisa.

Okay, just…

• Stay cool. - Okay.

Thank you.

Hey, Steve.

How are you feeling?

I’m feeling good, Joel. How about you?

I don’t think I could be in your business. It changes too quickly.

Well, I’d hang on, ‘cause yours is about to

start changing pretty quickly, too.

This is the third time in 14 years I’m writing about you.

What do you think so far?

Excuse me.

Uh, Avie’s looking for you. He has a new shark.

Want to come backstage for a second?

Sure.

Who’s this one?

Alan Turing.

Single-handedly won World War II and,

for an encore, invented the computer.

He won’t be part of the campaign, though.

Why not?

Because you just had to ask me who he was.

Can I see new shark?

• I like it better than the old shark. - Sharks.

Sharks.

How many sharks did you go through?

• A couple. - This is the 39th.

We’re on the record.

Thirty-nine sharks.

Okay.

You know what’s special about this shark? What?

No, I’m really asking, because it looks exactly

like the other 38 sharks to me.

Let me see it with the cue. From the profile.

This is Cue 92-B.

This is a profile here.

And this is what it looks like from the back.

And one more thing. It eats Pentium notebooks as a light snack.

This is the shark.

I really like it.

Nobody gets it right the first time,

but I should have been shown this shark 15, 20 fish ago.

You probably were.

Lock it in.

10 minutes.

He killed himself by taking a bite of a poison apple. Alan Turing.

Yeah. There should be statues of that man.

His name should be on the lips of schoolchildren.

The rainbow flag Apple with a bite taken out.

That’s where it came from?

No, we picked it off a list of friendly-sounding words.

But wouldn’t it be great if that had been the story behind it?

Steve.

Kinda liked the last shark.

Fuck you.

I wanted to ask you a favor.

My friend, a long time ago,

you asked me a favor before a product launch, and I said no.

• You wanted me to acknowledge. - Hang on.

If you’re about to say you were wrong,

I want to prepare this journalist.

I was 100% right.

And you were spectacularly wrong.

But I still owe you a favor, so name it.

Steve.

But it can’t be about acknowledging the Apple II team.

Acknowledge the Apple II team.

How about in private?

• No. No. - Is this a prank?

Because I’m trying to remember that a 300 megahertz G3 chip…

Just the top guys.

Steve.

• Excuse me, okay? - Yep.

One second.

She said she’d rather not.

What do you mean?

She’s sitting with her friends,

and she said she’d rather not come back.

Okay. Tell her…

Take her aside, I don’t want to

embarrass her in front of her friends,

but tell her I just scared the shit out of Andy,

and this time, nobody’s paying her fucking…

• All right. - Don’t say that.

But do your thing, where you sound old and wise

because of the broad, tragic European canvas of your life.

You know I wasn’t born in a 19th century shtetl, right?

Please tell her it’s important.

• Everything all right? - Yeah.

There are people around here, man,

including a member of the press.

I see him.

Woz.

Just the top guys, the ones who are getting laid off.

Listen, okay? Last year, Apple lost one billion dollars.

I don’t even know how that’s possible.

You were less than 90 days from being insolvent.

I had three different accountants try to explain it to me.

The whole place has to be streamlined.

Start with two of the accountants. I started with the…

Joel, could you come off-stage?

We’re going to go backstage. Leave him right there.

I started with the Apple II team because we don’t make that anymore.

Just acknowledge the top guys.

Have a mimosa and relax.

You will not blow me off right now, Steve!

The top guys…

There are no top guys. All right?

On the Apple II team, there are no top guys.

They’re B players.

And B players discourage the A players.

And I want A players at Apple, and not Dell.

They’re not B players, and I’m a better judge of that!

Less than 90 days from insolvency.

In part, because somebody thought the Newton wasn’t a box of garbage.

Joel, could you come off stage please? Leave him!

I’m talking about…

You guys designed and shipped a little box of garbage while I was gone.

I’m talking about the Apple II!

Which is not just a crucial part of this company’s history,

it is a crucial part of the history of personal computing!

For a time.

The least you can do, if you’re going to downsize these people…

They’re going to live in the biggest houses of anyone

on the unemployment line.

…is to acknowledge them!

Acknowledge them and the Apple II during this launch!

This is a new animal.

This whole place was built by the Apple II.

You were built by the Apple II.

As a matter of fact, I was destroyed

by the Apple II and its open system,

so that hackers and hobbyists could build ham radios, or something!

And then, it nearly destroyed Apple

when you spent all your money on it

and developed a grand total of no new products.

The Newton. The little box of garbage.

You guys came up with the Newton.

You, like, want people to know that?

This is a product launch, not a luncheon.

And the last thing I want to do is connect the iMac to…

To the only successful product that this company has ever made.

I’m sorry to be blunt, but that happens to be the truth.

The Lisa was a failure. The Macintosh was a failure.

I don’t like talking like this,

but I am tired of being Ringo when I know I was John.

Everybody loves Ringo.

And I’m tired of being patronized by you!

You think John became John by winning a raffle, Woz?

You think he tricked somebody,

or hit George Harrison over the head?

He was John because he was John.

He was John because he wrote Ticket to Ride.

And I wrote the Apple II.

Everybody?

I want to clear the auditorium. Nobody moves!

You made a beautiful board which, by the way,

you were willing to give out for free,

so don’t tell me how you built Apple.

If it weren’t for me, you’d be the easiest “A” at Homestead High School.

These people live and die by your praise, so here’s your chance.

Acknowledge that something good happened

that you weren’t in the room for.

• No. - Steve!

Do it.

It’s right. It’s…

It’s right.

Sorry, but no.

Then let me put it another way.

I don’t think there’s a man who’s done more

to advance the democratization that comes

with personal computing than I have,

but you’ve never had any respect for me. Now why is that?

I’d at least consider the possibility

that it’s because you’ve never had any for me.

What the hell is going on here?

Nothing.

Thank you for your time.

• It’s done. - She’s coming back.

You came a half-inch from putting this company out of business.

Now, who do I see about that?

I’m letting you keep your job.

You get a pass.

You know, when people used to ask me

what the difference was between me and Steve Jobs,

I would say Steve was the big-picture guy

and I liked a solid workbench.

When people ask me what the difference is now, I say…

Steve’s an asshole.

Your products are better than you are, brother.

That’s the idea, “brother.”

And knowing that, that’s the difference.

It’s not binary.

You can be decent and gifted at the same time.

He didn’t mean it.

Yeah, he did.

He’s a temperamental guy.

No, he’s not.

It’s like, five minutes before every launch,

everyone goes to a bar, gets drunk,

and tells me what they really think.

She’s coming to your dressing room.

I told you to make things all right with Lisa.

I didn’t say you had to settle every blood feud you have.

The last time blood feuds weren’t settled, I lost the cover of Time.

Though, for the life of me, I still don’t know

what the hell Dan Kottke was mad at me about.

Kottke didn’t lose you the cover of Time.

Of course he did.

Would you like me to demonstrate your capacity to be wrong

when you’re certain you’re right?

Dan Kottke told Time magazine that I was denying…

Do you remember the cover?

Of Time?

• Yes. - Yes.

What was it?

What are you talking about?

What was on the cover?

A computer.

No, it was a sculpture of a computer.

It was a sculpture.

Time would have had to have commissioned it months in advance.

You were never in the conversation for Man of the Year.

Nobody lost you anything.

So, what else are you sure about?

I don’t know how I could’ve missed that.

Reality distortion.

• No, seriously. - Seriously.

Don’t try to win an argument with Lisa.

Just say you were wrong.

Come on in, honey!

It’s not “honey.”

John! Get in, get in. Get out of the hall.

I was taken in the side entrance. I’ll go out the same way.

No one will see me. How are you, Joanna?

I’m good, John. I’m just surprised to see you.

Everyone here really appreciates the quote you gave to Forbes.

You didn’t have to do that.

My pleasure.

If you want, I can slip you in the back once the house lights go out.

I’m just here to say “good luck.” Okay.

You just have a couple of minutes.

Would you try to find…

Yeah.

You’re a good man, John.