Steve Jobs will be remembered as much for his negative personality traits as for his marketing genius, says Steve Wozniak in a new featurette for the upcoming movie, Steve Jobs.
The Woz waxes nostalgic about his friend and co-founder of Apple as his own recollections are interspersed with scenes and quotes from the movie.
“Steve Jobs is known for having some negative personality characteristics,” says Wozniak, “but did he balance the good with the bad or did the bad lead to the good?”
Check out the video embedded below to hear what Woz thinks.
“More than anything else,” says Wozniak, “Steve Jobs wanted to be known as the person known for it all.”
Woz compares Jobs to a technological leader like Edison, while in the same breath saying he might also be remembered for his negative personality, something that “will go with his legacy forever.”
He also talks about his friendship with Jobs as “Steve Jobs-zero,” a more playful time in their lives where the two played pranks, laughed together, and had adventures: the public Jobs we all know was created by Steve Jobs himself.
“He really manipulated his own legacy,” says Woz.
Steve Jobs, written by Aaron Sorkin and directed by Danny Boyle, will be in select theaters October 9 and everywhere else on October 23.
Via: Gizmodo
Rob LeFebvre is an Anchorage, Alaska-based writer and editor who has contributed to various tech, gaming and iOS sites, including 148Apps, Creative Screenwriting, Shelf-Awareness, VentureBeat, and Paste Magazine. Feel free to find Rob on Twitter @roblef, and send him a cookie once in a while; he’ll really appreciate it.
8 responses to “Woz admits Steve Jobs wasn’t always a nice guy”
“Woz admits Steve Jobs wasn’t always a nice guy”
Oh jeeeeeeez! Enough already! He was a flawed man, as all men are. He was also a great man, as few men are. Can’t we just leave it there?
It’s just something to write about, must be a slow day in the Tech Industry. ;-)
Here is something to pay attention , a great opportunity for work for those who want to use their free time to make money using their computers… I have been doing this since last two years and I am making 40 to 70 dollars per hour … In the last week I have made 12,245 for almost 18 hours sitting ….
?There are no special skills required just basic typing and an internet connection ….
?There are no time constraints … You may do this any time when you are free ….
?Here is what I’ve been doing….
< ->>www.youcanalsochangeyourfatelikeothersare.blogspot.com >
&t
yeah but id make a terrible cam girl.
btw, how much do you charge for a private show? i wanna see you put that doohickey in your thingy
Does Woz really think he is doing a good thing here, or is he merely unable to resist the forces of bad journalism and movie marketing? Would he be pleased, if he knew that somebody would make a movie about him – once he is dead – explaining that he wasn’t a good enough programmer to write a decent BASIC interpreter and didn’t keep up with technology, but went on bragging about his achievements with the Apple ][ and expertise for 40 years?
He didn’t even design the Apple ][, he did just design the motherboard. His work was surpassed by Burell Smith with the Macintosh. (Who arguably learned by Wozes example, but isn’t revered at all.)
We are all humans. We make mistakes. There is a time to forgive.
If Steve Jobs said something about Woz’s weight as in losing some for the sake of his health, I think half the world would have said it was mean of Jobs…
It would be great if we could move on now and focus on what is really really important in the world – like the Oscars. /s
You gotta Love Woz!! He’s starting to look like a Stars Wars character. Woz Rulz!!
Looks like Woz came around on the Apple Watch.