Apple co-founder and tech guru Steve Wozniak does not seem impressed with the new biopic about Steve Job\u2019s life. On the eve of the film\u2019s premiere at Sundance Film Festival, Wozniak said that the creators behind iJobs got a pivotal scene \u2018totally wrong.\u2019<\/p>\n
In the clip released Thursday, Jobs, portrayed by Ashton Kutcher, tries to convince Wozniak, played by John Gad, that consumers would be interested in buying personal computers if only they were available.<\/p>\n
The skeptical Wozniak, sporting long curly hair and beard, appears doubtful. \u2018Nobody wants to buy a computer…nobody,\u2019 he tells Jobs.<\/p>\n
However, Wozniak claims that in real life, the roles in the argument were actually reversed, CBS News reported.<\/p>\n
\u2018Totally wrong. Personalities and where the ideas of computers affecting society did not come from Jobs,\u2019 Wozniak said in an email to Gizmodo. \u2018We never had such interaction and roles…personalities are very wrong although mine is closer.<\/p>\n
\u2018I never looked like a professional. We were both kids. Our relationship was so different from what was portrayed. I\u2019m embarrassed, but if the movie is fun and entertaining, all the better,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n
According to the 63-year-old Apple co-founder, the idea of designing a PC came from his time in Homebrew Computer Club for electronics hobbyists in Silicon Valley, long before Jobs came aboard.
\nWozniak went on to say that the fact that the scene between Kutcher and Gad never happened in reality is not what\u2019s really bothering him.<\/p>\n
\u2018It\u2019s ok to make up a dramatic scene, but is much better if it sort of happened and had the meaning portrayed,\u2019 he wrote.<\/p>\n
Gad told Reuters that the filmmakers had tried to reach out to him to get his input on jOBS, but that Wozniak was \u2018participating in another project about Steve Jobs.\u2019<\/p>\n
Wozniak is tied to a movie based on Walter Isaacson\u2019s official biography Steve Jobs, being developed by screen writer Aaron Sorkin of The Social Network fame. <\/p>\n
No release date or casting has been announced. Kutcher, 34, said he hoped Wozniak would look more kindly on the movie when he had seen the whole two hours.<\/p>\n
Much of the action takes place in the early 1980s, and Jobs\u2019 ideologies for the Apple Lisa and Macintosh computers, which ended up performing poorly for the company and led to Jobs being fired.<\/p>\n
Kutcher\u2019s Jobs is seen as the rock star of the tech world, admired but misunderstood in his early days as he constantly tried to think outside of the box and bring a notion of \u201ccool\u201d to his brand.<\/p>\n
The audience on Friday warmly applauded the film following the screening. It will be released nationwide on April 19, marking the 37th anniversary of the founding of Apple Computers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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