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I'm disappointed in that unlike The Social Network, which had no other film as a reference to compare to, this film already has Pirates of Silicon Valley as a precedent. While Jobs didn't care for the film, Woz thought:

"The personalities and incidents are accurate in the sense that they all occurred but they are often with the wrong parties (Bill Fernandez, Apple employee #4, was with me and the computer that burned up in 1970) and at the wrong dates (when John Sculley joined, he had to redirect attention from the Apple III,not the Mac, to the Apple II) and places (Homebrew Computer Club was at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) ... the personalities were very accurately portrayed." (http://www.woz.org/taxonomy/term/2)



Jobs must have liked it somewhat though, otherwise he wouldn't have had Noah Wyle reprise the role in an Apple keynote:

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


Looks to me like Jobs uses the entire exchange as a way of undermining Noah's performance in the movie:

"I invited him here today to see how I really act" etc


It's a fairly standard comedy pattern: start with a celebrity impersonation, then have the impersonated celebrity come out and critique the performance. SNL uses it a lot, e.g., (the real) George H. W. Bush coming on and critiquing Dana Carvey.




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