In the morning I told you that the documentary Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine financed by CNN is to be presented for the first time at SXSW during this day and the premiere has already taken place in the USA. According to the first information about the documentary, it seems that it puts the former CEO of Apple, Steve Jobs, in a very bad light, some employees of the company leaving the hall offended by the way the director Alex Gibney chose to present their former leader .
Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Steve Jobs, refused to give an interview for the documentary, the same was done by the members of Apple's board of directors, but also by many employees of the American company. Even so, director Gibney managed however, to obtain enough information from other former and current employees of Apple, starting with the company's design team, most of them having as their source the parties organized following Apple events.
Next we learn that the first Apple computer was almost called Apple Claire, Steve Jobs thinking that the same name could be given to his daughter who was to be born, she being called Lisa, Jobs did not use her name in the place of the originally proposed one. The documentary also shows the cruel way in which Jobs treated his girlfriend who gave him his first child, he lied in his testimony before a court, claiming that his ex-girlfriend was sterile and that Lisa was not his daughter.
As you well know, a paternity test forced Jobs to recognize his only child at the time, he agreed to pay alimony of 1980 dollars a month for Lisa in 500, after the fortune had reached 200 million dollars. Moving on, the documentary shows Bob Belleville having an emotional moment in front of the camera, reading a letter written after the death of Steve Jobs, blaming the fierce competitive culture within the company for destroying the very good relationship he had with Jobs.
Finally, we have presented the moment when Gizmodo premiered the iPhone 4 before the launch and the war launched by Jobs against the publication he loved and followed daily. Apple employees and the editor-in-chief of Gizmodo gave interviews about the documentary, which tells about the searches made by the police at the request of Apple, the confiscation of its computers and information about the man who paid 5.000 dollars for the iPhone 4 to reach the editorial office of his publication.
The documentary Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine presents a multitude of interesting information about the life of the former CEO of Apple, Steve Jobs, and as they become available I will return with details.
