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Photos Apple's first employees showed us from the company's earliest days

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TIL that the "bite" out of the apple logo is actually the curve of the overlaid "a" of the word apple. (See headed notepaper pic.)

Nice Catch, But I am still not convinced much.

Ashton Kutcher does look like young Steve Jobs. Now I get why they casted him in the first place.

I always liked Noah Wyle's Jobs

http://i.imgur.com/ahV1bxh.jpg

Well, I guess Apple liked it as well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIClAanU7Os

"Pirates of Silicon Valley" is such a great film. It's even funny and the true story is told in a nice way.

Cringely's "The Triumph of the Nerds" documentary is great too (which lead to the "Pirates of Silicon Valley" film).

The only other awesome documentary style film about the computer age (that I know of) is David Fincher's "The Social Network". Sony Pictures tried get David Fincher to direct a new "Steve Jobs" movie (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2080374/) based on a screenplay written by Aaron Sorkin (same team as "The Social Network") but then something went terrible wrong (http://variety.com/2014/film/news/leaked-sony-emails-reveal-...). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs_(film)

They forced a weird impression to portray jobs body language. In my eyes it backfired.

Steve Wozniak smiles as he receives his fair share ($350) of $5,000 bonus that Atari handed to Steve Jobs for Woz's remarkable design of the Breakout game. Good days.

[1] http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/52bc7f156da811a0770...

It's interesting when you read the biographies of Steve Jobs. He continued this behaviour all the way up until his 30's of putting business ahead of personal relationships. It wasn't until he started a family with Laurene and his time with Catmull and Lassetter at Pixar that this really changed.

It's a shame that no one spent more time trying to probe whether the fact that he was adopted had any influence or it was just pure ambition.

He also did quite a few drugs in his early days, I assume he stopped as he matured and started his family too.

"Brennan, 22 at the time, had become Jobs' girlfriend in high school when she was 17, a relationship he later trashed when she became pregnant. Jobs disavowed the child, Lisa, despite naming the Apple Lisa machine (in development in 1978) after her. Jobs only admitted Lisa was his daughter when she reached her teens."

Is Jobs as much of an assh*le as this statement makes out to be in the article?

You need to watch "Pirates of Silicon Valley".

In his early days he was. But then who of us was/is a mature adult at that age?

Read the two Jobs biographies and especially Ed Catmull's book on Pixar and see how he changed.

Highly recommend the book by Ed Catmull (Creativity Inc).

He is regarded as being one of the great people managers.

Sure, if you think that wage-fixing and being a great "people manager" are aligned.

http://www.osnews.com/story/27836/Pixar_s_Ed_Catmull_central...

Edit: grammar

Lots of dudes become dads at 22 and go on to raise their kids proper.

The Lisa incident was pretty much the lowest point for Jobs, in terms of him being an asshole. It's often brought up as an example of how horrible he was. However, he was young when it happened, he later regretted it and he did mature over the years (some people say that when he was fired from Apple, that was what fixed him) so it doesn't feel particularly fair to use it to characterise him later in life. That said, there were more recent incidents showing him to be a bit of an ass too.

Thanks for the clarification. For someone like me who is not so involve in the Silicon Valley scene, it was the first time I have heard about the Lisa incident. I have also heard about some snippets from the Walter Issacson's Jobs biography (not read) how tough he is on his own family. As someone else mention, we are all humnan. As humans, we are all somekind of assholes one way or another, one of our aims in life is minimise its affect on others.

I don't know, colluding to keep the wages of your employees down is pretty low.

Pretty much. People need to realize that Steve was a human being, absolutely riddled with flaws and prone to fuckups, just like everyone else.

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