“I know the Jobs story fairly well having, well, lived some of it, but people have been asking me about the film [“Jobs” starring Ashton Kutcher] so I thought I should check it out,” Bob Cringely writes for I, Cringely.
“Critics have not been kind and Steve Wozniak said he wouldn’t recommend it,” Cringely writes. “I can see why.”
Cringely writes, “The great failing of this film is the same failing as with Walter Isaacson’s book: something happened during Steve’s NeXT years (which occupy less than a 60 seconds of this 122 minute film) that turned Jobs from a brat into a leader, but they don’t bother to cover that.”
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