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It's a real shame both Job's movies skip right over his NeXT and Pixar days.. In 1983 he predicted 10-15 years until home network connectivity is "solved". 10
by Rapzid 8mo ago
It's a real shame both Job's movies skip right over his NeXT and Pixar days..
In 1983 he predicted 10-15 years until home network connectivity is "solved". 10 years later the world wide web released to the public, originally developed on his company's NeXT platform in 1989..
- nebula8804 8mo agoThe 2015 movie has the entire second act dedicated to the Next launch no?
- twoodfin 8mo agoIndeed, to the exclusion of the iPod or iPhone launches. And it gets the core idea right, too, that NeXT was a commercial failure but built the core OS technology launchpad for the mobile revolution—after saving Apple, of course. It’s told in a wildly ahistorical framing, but I find the stage play-like “your life passes before your eyes” structure to be much truer to Jobs’ story—and more entertaining—than the Isaacson book. One of my favorite films of the last 20 years.