
Steve Jobs is a movie directed by Danny Boyle in 2015 and based on the book of the same name by Walter Isaacson, first published in 2011. The movie features Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen, Jeff Daniels, Michael Stuhlbarg, Katherine Waterston, and others.
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Storyline
In 1984, the Apple Macintosh 128K’s voice demo fails less than an hour before its unveiling at Flint Center. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs demands engineer Andy Hertzfeld to fix it, threatening to publicly implicate him in the presentation’s credits if he does not. Jobs bonds with Lisa over her MacPaint art and agrees to provide more money and a house.
Movie vs Book

Year
2015
Minutes
122
Movie Rate
7.20
Source: IMDb

Year
2011
Pages
627
Book Rate
8.28
S: Goodreads
Book
Steve Jobs
Author: Walter Isaacson
Country: USA
First published in: 2011
Length: 627 pages
Genre: Biography
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