Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview (2012)

Sorry, this movie sucks

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

I've watched my share of movies, loved many of them, feel changed and awed by many of them; I look for reviews from the pros and amateurs alike, looking for other opinions to confirm or challenge my own. But this is my first ever review.My spouse just happened to find this gem on Netflix last evening, and once it got started, I was completely enthralled. An intimate interview like this gives those of us of only average aspiration a powerful glimpse into the workings of one truly great innovator. I have heard Mr Jobs had a reputation, among those who worked closest with him, as being extremely difficult to like. So I started watching this interview with a pre-jaundiced perspective. I am pretty sure you don't compete in the world in which Steve Jobs dominated without being hard to please sometimes, almost pathologically so.But it is important to put those impressions aside, and just listen to the man talk as if you didn't know who he was or what he was yet to do. He freely acknowledges the auspiciousness of his natural skills nurtured by the environment in which he grew up. He speaks candidly of his mistakes. He talks about his infatuation about computing machines, and the importance of learning a computer language because it forces you to learn how to think in new ways. He gets emotional about being forced to leave Apple (incredible and ironic that he hires the person that would lead the Board to oust him, and subsequently dismantle Apple). His ability to think back to formative experiences of his much younger self, and relate them to his leadership style and decisions is nothing less than profound. He can talk about old widowers from his childhood, a Scientific American article about living things and kilocalories/kilometer efficiency, ordering his first shipment of 100 printed circuit boards for the Apple I, Bill Gates, what he learned from two brief visits to Xerox (a lot!), what "diseases" infect large established companies, process versus content, what "taste" means, and why it's so important, and much more. He relates the story of his uninhibited 12-year-old self calling Bill Hewlett (of Hewlett-Packard!) to ask questions about computer technology. Back then, everyone was just in the phone book! He speaks off the top of his head in completely coherent logically formed paragraphs as if he had been reading from an essay he'd been working on for weeks.If you're at all curious why Steve Jobs was "Steve Jobs"; why his name is synonymous with edgy brilliance; why YOU almost certainly have an Apple product somewhere (and why you, even begrudgingly, appreciate it), do not wait to flip on this movie.

Steve Jobs:The Lost Interview is an hour-long interview by the producer of the Triumph Of The Nerds,a documentary about the history of the personal computer and internet,Robert X. Cringley done back in 1995.This basically was the full hour interview he made with Jobs,who was then part of NeXT Computers,as he reflected on various things such as when he was part of Apple Computer from the garage days of his parents' house until he was fired by the board led by the man he hired - John Sculley to become the CEO as well as his views about Bill Gates and Microsoft as well as what is to come in the computer industry.In addition to that,he also recounted the discovery of the Graphic User Interface and the mouse when they visited Xerox PARC(Palo Alto Research Center) back in the 80's as well as Microsoft Windows as it became the standard operating system of computers today.Listening to this interview,we definitely would have a better appreciation of the late Apple CEO as he shares his views on what's to come in the computer industry.While he maybe at his lackluster years as his company NeXT isn't thriving when the interview was made,we definitely have seen a man who never once gave up in life as he would later lead Apple to a comeback from being on the brink of bankruptcy into becoming the most valuable company in the world worth $500 billion. It was definitely worth watching indeed.

I've read "Steve Jobs", an authorized biography, by Walter Isaacson and for me this interview cover most of aspects of this remarkable visionary. It spans through almost all of history of high-tech, telling us about things that we use without noticing them in our life today as extensions of our human being.I've seen "jOBS" which I rated 7/10 because it didn't mentioned "the little blue box" which is very important as Steve Jobs is telling in this interview was one of things he remembered for life - even small things can empower small people with capability to rule billions worth of industries. And it is true, everything that is big grows from even smallest things. Visionary is a person who can see those small things that will change our life in the future.Steve Jobs was first to see the importance of GUI, mouse, desktop publishing, the internet, computers for schools. He had changed our life.

In 1995, during the making of his TV series Triumph of the Nerds about the birth of the PC, Bob Cringely did a memorable hour-long interview with Steve Jobs.During that time of the interview,Jobs was running NeXT, the computer company he had founded when he got fired from Apple after a bruising struggle with John Sculley, the CEO he had brought into the company.The whole hour long interview was presented in it after it was found by the series director,Paul Sen.I enjoyed the interview thoroughly.In it,Jobs was at his charismatic best explaining his rise and fall as founder of Apple by narrating the early days when he and Steve Wozniak built the Apple I in a garage, and unknowingly invented cell phones by rigging it to send a telephone call around the world to ring the pay phone next door a minute later. As I quote him,"We realized we two could control billions of dollars in infrastructure!".He also remembers them and his one time experience of calling the Pope and hanging up when they realized they'd actually gotten through.Aside from that,he was frank about John Sculley,the CEO at Apple he hired from Pepsi especially after he drove him out of the company he started.Besides that,he was clearly a visionary as he stated of things to come in the computer industry after visiting Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) in the 1980's. He was simply witty and outspoken.Most of all,the was simply a visionary who proves himself to be ahead of his time when it comes to computer industry especially with things to come like the internet,mobile devices,computers,software,networking and many others that exist today after coming back as CEO of Apple in the late 90's when he mentioned them when the interview took place. Overall,this is one excellent interview that an Apple device owner should watch.