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I don't want you
to think of this

as just a film,

some process

of converting electrons
and magnetic impulses

into shapes and figures
and sounds.

No.

Listen to me.

We're here to make a dent
in the universe.
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Otherwise, why even be here?

We're creating
a completely new consciousness,

like an artist or a poet.
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That's how you have to
think of this.

We're rewriting the history of human thought with what we're doing.

Right.

Well, Steven,
at the moment,

I'm a touch more worried about
getting light on the actress.

Do you know
what I mean?

Simon.

Michelle.

Yeah?

Michelle, walk...

Yes, walk towards the lens
slowly.

Like this?

More towards
the table.

Okay? Right.

Right.

I always wondered what it must have been like

for Steve.

I mean, ever since we were kids,
everything he ever did

was somewhere between a religious
experience and some sort of crusade.

Like with this commercial.

It was practically a legend

from the time Ridley Scott
filmed it,

like the book 1984,
with all the downtrodden masses,

and that one huge spark
of rebellion

against the evil Big Brother
who ran everything.

SCOTT:
Go, go, go.

Smoke it up, please.

And you three.
That's right, you'll come with me.

The rest of you
stay in the back.

We are one people with one will,

one resolve, one cause.

Our enemies
shall talk themselves to death,

and we will bury them
with their own confusion.

We shall prevail.

And then, 13 years later,

Steve has to stand up
on that stage in Boston.

Man, that was...

That was weird.

The era of competition
between us

is over.

Thank you, Bill.

Thank you for
standing with us.

The world's a better place
because of it.

Microsoft is gonna ruin Apple!

You can't trust them.

I know.

I realize that this news
may be shocking to some of you.

I mean, Steve talking to Bill Gates,

who's staring down
like he's Big Brother.

And he was.

For years, Steve almost went crazy
over what Bill was doing to him,

and now he's up there on that stage
in front of the world, telling everybody

he's practically
the Second Coming.

I mean, how do you get
from there to here?

There was a disturbance today on the campus
of the University of California at Berkeley.

Berkeley wasn't the only campus...

The Santa Barbara campus reported
a small-scale riot as well.

The demonstrators said
they were...

More than 400 students

have taken part
in the demonstration...

In the morning,

police began launching tear-gas grenades
to break up the crowd.

Student leaders say they are anxious
to meet with university officials

to express their views on Vietnam.

Steve, what the hell
are we doing here?

Let's get out
of here.

Stay back.

Hold it. Hold it there.
Get back.

♪ Why do we never
Get an answer ♪

♪ When we're knocking
At the door? ♪

♪ With a thousand million
Questions ♪

♪ About hate and death
And war ♪

♪ It's where we stop
And look around us ♪

♪ There is nothing
That we need ♪

♪ In a world of persecution ♪

♪ That is burning
In its greed ♪

♪ Aah ♪

Don't drop
the box!

I'm not!

Come on.

♪ Ahh ♪

You okay?

Those guys think
they're revolutionaries.

They're not revolutionaries.
We are. We are?

WOZNIAK:
You know, Steve was never like you or me.

He always saw things differently.

Even then,
when I was in Berkeley,

I would see something
and just see kilobytes or circuit boards,

while he'd see karma
or the meaning of the universe.

Steve and I
found this weird guy

who was a hero
around Berkeley,

all because he found a way
to beat the system.

This guy was called
Captain Crunch

because he figured out

this little whistle...

...that you found in boxes
of Cap'n Crunch cereal

had the same tones

as AT&T's
long-distance equipment.

So you got free phone calls
anywhere in the world

with this thing I built
called the blue box.

And then we tested it out
by calling the pope.

You talk to him.
No, no, no.

No, they're not
putting you through to the pope,

are they?
I totally figured it out, man.

I figured it out.
I know what it's all about.

You know
what it's about?

It's about power.

Right on, man.

It's like those
weird countries, man,

where the army guys
overthrow the president.

The first thing
that they take over

are the ways people
communicate, you know,

radio, TV, newspapers.

Far out, man.

Information is power.

WOZNIAK:
I kept building the blue boxes,

and Steve kept selling them,

until one day, we almost
got busted by some cops

who, thank God,

didn't even know
what a blue box was.

You might wanna
try a haircut, boys.

So I started trying
to build something

that wasn't gonna get us
in trouble.

That's not
a blue box.

It's a computer.

Woz, we need blue boxes,
not computers.

Lookit, I got a reporter
from The Mercury News

coming over.
What the hell for?

My mom phoned the paper, told
them I was building a computer,

they wanna do a story on it.
Woz, give me a break.

Hey, let me ask you
something, seriously.

Look at me.

Do you wanna get stuck here
for the rest of your life

in this hellhole?

Look, this is where
I grew up, okay?

It's not a hellhole.
Shoot!

I know your newspaper

will find Steve's
computer fascinating.

He's so ingenious.

He built it all
from spare parts.

Steven, the reporter is...

Oh. Hi.
It caught fire.

My first chance at fame,
and the computer catches fire.

Sorry.

WOZNIAK:
When I was still at Berkeley,

I kept making
some weird electronic gadgets

that were basically just jokes.

But, hey, you know,
jokes are important.

The problem back then

was me and Steve
and his girlfriend

were pretty much broke.

So we ended up doing
some pretty nutty things

just to make money.

I know where we can get a job.

Saw it on the bulletin
board over there.

What kind of job?

I don't know.

It seems sort of like
show business.

WOZNIAK:
I mean, dressing up as Alice in Wonderland

and stuff
for a bunch of kids?

Ow!

WOZNIAK:
But, you know,

Steve wasn't exactly cut out
for that stuff.

Maybe in a past life
I was a poet... or an artist.

You know, maybe
you talk about past lives

and all that stuff

because, well,
you don't know who you are.

What the hell
are you talking about?

I don't know
who I am?

Well, you don't.
I mean, you told me...

I don't wanna talk about it
with you or anyone else.

I'm just trying to help.

♪ Hare Krishna
Hare Krishna ♪

WOZ:
It wasn't like Steve and I lost touch with each other

back then, but he was
definitely in places that I wasn't.

Like some ashram in India

and communes up in Oregon,

where they picked apples
all day.

It was pretty much
of a journey for Steve.

The kind that's as much
on the inside

as on the outside.

I mean, he definitely
must have been to weird places.

Hey, did you see
the new Playmate?

Miss October?

Hey, man,
Miss August is way better.

Boobs out to here.

Honest to God, Ballmer.

You have no culture.

Yeah, right.

Like you go around
reading Plato.

Hey, you're the only guy
I know

who could make furniture
out of Playboys,

for God sakes.

Look, you got enough
to make a chair.

You don't have to worry
about 'em moving around

because they're
stuck together.

Ballmer,
get out of here.

They're all
stuck together.

BALLMER:
Sometimes, even back then,

I could've throttled
Bill Gates.

The guy could turn
any human situation

into a poker game.

Forget about classes.
Poker.

The fact that
the world might end tonight?

No problem. Poker.

Or we're finally deciphering
the meaning of life.

More poker.

And winning.

The guy would have
a hairball if he'd lost,

which wasn't often,
let me tell you.

Full house.

Ugh!
Oh, man.

Hey, Bill.

BALLMER:
Our rooms were like a casino.

Actually, a messy casino.

And Bill slept
wherever he fell down.

Bill, the revolution's
starting without us.

BALLMER:
Bill and Paul Allen

had known each other
since they were kids,

and if the word "passion"
entered into their lives,

it was for one thing:
computers.

Especially this one

made by some guy in
Albuquerque, of all places.

What is this,
porn for engineers?

Oh, jeez, the Altair.

Am I missing
something?

I mean, Miss October,
I can understand,

but what is this?

This is better
than Miss October.

This is a computer.

Oh, God.

The article says
that they need someone

to figure out
a computer language for it.

Right now, it just
sits there and blinks.

Look, whoever talks
to this Ed Roberts

has gotta go down there
to Albuquerque to see him.

Well, then,
you should go,

because you look better
for that stuff than I do.

I do not.

Well, you both look terrible,
so just get used to it.

Well, then, what are
we supposed to do?

It's simple.

You call and
say you're Paul.

And then Paul
goes to Albuquerque

and says he's Paul.

Huh?

So, uh, what
are you gonna say?

Hi. Mr. Ed Roberts,
please.

This is Paul Allen calling
from Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Look, it's our job to find out

what this guy doesn't know
that he needs

but does need,

and then make sure he knows
that he does need it,

and that we're the only ones
to give him the answer.

What?

Mr. Roberts?

Yes, sir, Mr. Allen.

I tell you,

I believe that we've got
one hot product here.

And the reason
I can speak that way

is because I've taken
over 50 phone calls

from people just wanting
to come to work with us

on this Altair project.

So here's the deal.

I snuck two women into my room.

And they're naked.

I mean, like, really naked.

You know, like, gorgeous naked.

So don't say I never
did anything for you,

because they're waiting
for you right now.

Drop dead, Ballmer.

Oh, and I told them

that you were writing
a computer language,

and right away,
they start moaning for it.

"Oh, computer
languages.

"Oh, Fortran.

"Oh, Fortran.

Ohh..."

Will you
cut it out, Steve?

Excuse me, I'm just trying
to save you guys

from... wasting

your entire Harvard
reading week

over this Traf-O-Data
simulator

while everyone else
is out getting drunk or laid.

♪ I put a spell on you ♪

Paul, are those parts
binary?

I give up.
I give up.

I give up.
I give up.

♪ All right ♪

BALLMER:
Oh, duck, Bill.

Come on, Bill.

Oh. Oh, you know, Bill,

I think you gotta come up
with a better pickup line.

Asking her what
her SAT score is

is definitely
not gonna do it.

Ballmer,
I forgot to write a loader.

That's not an improvement, Bill.

No, no. I just
realized something.

Paul's on his way right now
to Albuquerque,

and I forgot
to write the loader.

The thing that connects
the computer to the Teletype.

If he starts it,
and it can't read the tape, we're dead.

Unless he did it on the plane...
I'm finished.

You know, it's something
I just realized.

I hope so.

You know,
if this Albuquerque thing had have worked,

I was gonna
quit Harvard.

Are you crazy?

I gotta be a doctor
or something.

Gynecologist,
maybe.

Come on.
I'm flying.

Yeah,
you're flying.

Whee! Here we go.

Ballmer...

BALLMER:
You're the only guy I know

who pays the strippers
to put their clothes on.

Come on, drunkie.

Whoo.

Okay.

Hey, Bill,

it's either
the clothes on the floor or you,

but something here definitely
needs to be hosed down.

BILL:
Sorry we failed.

Whoo!

Good night.

Sorry we failed.

PAUL'S VOICE:
Bill, Bill, Bill.

Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill...

Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill
Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill...

It's an Altair.

They gave it to us as a gift.

We blew 'em away.

JOBS:
Woz, do we have to have mice?

WOZNIAK:
Come on. I like mice.

This is Irving.

Hey, man,

you are putting poison
into your body.

Hey, hey, come on.
Give me those.

That's French fries, man.

That's what I mean.

French fries,
all-American food.

Come on.

I can't eat
like you do.

Eating fruit
all the time...

That's weird.

It's not weird. It's pure.

Makes the soul pure.

Wait, wait.
You gotta listen to this.

I got a great one today.

WOZ'S VOICE:
Hey, did you hear the one about the drunk

who came staggering
out of the subway

and said, "Man, I got lost
in some guy's basement."

You should've seen
the set of trains he had"?

Wawh, wawh.

...the Bay Area
Dial-a-Joke Line,

making your day
a barrel of laughs.

I got a new book
of Polish jokes.

Man, it'll keep me going
for years.

Why?

Why?

It makes people
laugh.

You know, I got people
phoning in every day

just to hear my latest joke.

It makes their day better.

Are you sure this thing
is even gonna work?

If it doesn't
catch fire.

Don't even joke.

I like jokes.

Jokes make me feel good.

You know, I hired
a private detective today.

I wanna find my mother.

My real mother.

You know, you never
talk about that stuff with me.

That part about
being adopted and all.

Guy says
he can probably find her.

Why you always get freaked out
when Arlene asks you about it?

Arlene?

Arlene's got her own problems.

My parents don't even want her
in the house.

She phones me
a million times a day.

At least
I'm working on my stuff.

♪ A turn of the page ♪

Feel better?

Now, Steve, tell the others
what you're feeling.

Whoo.

Like, um...

Like it's gone.

What is?

The anger.

Like the anger's
gone.

It's gone.

♪ Cry, cry, cry ♪

WOZNIAK:
Back then, our big thrill

was going to this thing
they called the Homebrew Club

at Berkeley.

It was where a bunch of guys
spent all their spare time trying to get access

to big computers owned
by the local corporations.

And people would go there

and show the stuff
they just built.

Except most of it didn't
really work all that well.

LECTURER:
...read in the Popular Electronics issue

about a year ago, um,

about the new Altair 8800.

WOZNIAK:
I was really nervous that day we walked in

with my little
homemade computer,

but I got a real charge
out of it.

I mean, all those guys
coming over

and wanting to talk to me...

Um, the schematics we have...

What is this thing?

Check it out.

The first computer
you're ever gonna see.

What's the screen for?

WOZNIAK:
I was never good at talking to people

in those days,

but Steve... he was amazing.

Just think
about Alexander Graham Bell,

when he heard his first ring.

Because that's as revolutionary
as this idea is right here.

What's he's talking
about, the Altair? Yeah.

I never had a problem
with the Altair till I tried to use it.

WOZNIAK:
All of a sudden, we found what we wanted to do with our lives.

It was all we ever wanted.
To 30.

What you see here
is the first personal computer that you're gonna wanna buy.

No, no.

Man, 50!

We sold 50.

IBM is gotta be loading
in their pants.

You know, Steve,

I don't even think IBM
knows who we are.

Good.

This is
guerrilla warfare.

They're the enemy.

They are?

I used to think

maybe Steve was born obsessed
with wiping out IBM.

And in a way, you could see why.

I mean, in those days,
as far as we were concerned,

IBM was practically
like the Pentagon.

♪ IBM, successful men... ♪

WOZNIAK:
I mean, here were a bunch of guys

who dressed exactly the same
and sang company songs.

♪ That's why we are so gay
Hey! ♪

WOZNIAK:
I mean, we were these scruffy crazies

messing around
with all this computer stuff

the IBM guys thought
was, like, toys.

But what did they know?

Where's your VW?

Sold it.

1350 bucks.

♪ We're on our way ♪

Steve.

What? What's the problem?

I don't know
if I can build these things.

Hey, Woz, like,
I assume we're speaking the same language, right?

Dan, Elizabeth,

I'm not speaking
Swahili, am I?

Because I'm here
to inform you

that our universe
is unfolding...

But I still don't think
I can build 'em.

You know I work
for Hewlett-Packard sometimes.

Right?
Yeah, and...?

And my dad pointed it out.

They get first chance
in anything I invent.

What?
Look, I can't help it.

It's on the paper I signed
when I started working there.

Damn it, Woz!

We get our shot,
our destiny,

and now we gotta
turn it all over

to these businessmen?

Steve.

It is Steve,
isn't it?

Yeah.

Steve, you say
that this gadget of yours

is for ordinary people.

What on earth
would ordinary people want

with computers?

♪ No time left for you ♪

♪ On my way
To better things... ♪

What?

♪ ...some wings ♪

♪ Distant roads
Are calling me ♪

What?

They hated it.

Whoo-hoo! Ha-ha-ha!

They hated it.

♪ No time
For my watch and chain ♪

♪ No time
For revolving doors ♪

♪ No time
For the killing floor ♪

♪ No time
For the killing floor ♪

♪ There's no time left
For you ♪

♪ No time left for you... ♪

Whenever Steve went to a bank
trying to get a loan,

it was like they were Eskimos,

and we had a refrigerator
to sell them.

Okay, so Steve didn't look
like a business guy.

But who did?

Besides,
business guys and bankers

thought you'd just barfed
on their shoes

if you tried to interest them

in computers
for ordinary people.

I mean, go figure.

♪ You need not wonder why ♪

♪ There's no time left
For you ♪

♪ No time left for you ♪

♪ No time ♪

♪ No time ♪

♪ No time ♪

♪ No time ♪

♪ No time ♪

♪ No time ♪

♪ No time ♪

♪ No time ♪

♪ I got, got, got
Got no time ♪

♪ I got, got, got
Got no time ♪

♪ I got, got, got
Got no time ♪

♪ No, no, no
No, no, no time ♪

♪ I got, got, got
Got no time ♪

Where's your beard?

In the bathroom.

Shaved it off.

Well, how come?

Because banks don't like beards.

WOZNIAK:
So we called ourselves "Apple" and started making

a bunch of those
little computers anyway.

Me, Steve, and his friends,
Elizabeth and Dan,

all of us sweating away
in Steve's parents' garage.

It's like

sometimes not knowing
how crazy something is

is a good thing.

You're just goofing around

until someone
like Mike shows up

and says, "Wow."

Steve Jobs?

Jobs.

Oh, right.
I'm sorry.

Mike Markula.

Hey, Mike. How you doing?

I'm well.

The man who put
intelligence into Intel.

Yeah...

No smoking in here.

Oh, I'm sorry
about that.

Yeah. Valentine said
you might call.

Yeah.
Welcome to Apple Computers.

Thank you.
Here it is, huh?

Yeah, I was looking for
a venture opportunity like this.

What kind of venture money
are we talking about, Mike?

Well, I figure we start with
about a quarter-million dollars

and see
what happens.

Excuse me?

Quarter-million dollars.

You must be Steve Wozniak.

Yeah.

Mike Markula.
Hey.

You want to put
a quarter-million into this?

Yep.

What's the catch?

No catch,
just business.

That's the catch right there,
Mike,

because this ain't
just business.

This is practically spiritual.

This is about
overthrowing dead culture.

Dead gods.

Okay, look, if you guys

wanna be a bunch of guys
operating out of a garage,

that's fine with me, all right.

But this is
a ground-zero operation here, all right, you know.

Steve Wozniak's employee
number one. You're number two.

Wait a minute.

I'm employee number one.

Woz?

Doesn't matter to me.

I'm employee number one
around here.

I'm not saying anything.
I wasn't implying anything.

All right, then, I'll be zero.
Woz, you can be number one.

I'll be zero. Okay?

WOZNIAK:
You know,

even though things
were changing like crazy,

venture capitalists and bankers
and all that,

some things
still stayed the same,

especially with Steve.

Steve, I don't want it.
It'll make you nice.

Woz, you and me.

Steven Wozniak,

this is your mother
telling you

to drop
this beautiful acid...

No. You know, your mother
wouldn't approve either.

Get that away from me.

Man.
Man.

I'd be careful.

Baby, it's you and me.

Take a little trip?
No, thanks, Steve.

Come on.
Steve, no.

What's the matter
with you guys?

It's like living with a bunch
of squares and stiffs.

More for me.

Oh, I'm standing.

I'm standing
in front of something.

It's a field of wheat.

Oh, and I hear
classical music playing.

Do you hear it?

Do you hear it?

I'm conducting classical music!

Everything's moving
with the wind.

Everything's moving
with the wind.

Everything's moving
just the way I want it to.

Everything.

Tsk.

Steve.

Hey...

How am I gonna
get home?

PAUL:
It's not so bad when there's no wind.

BILL:
Yeah?

What is that?

WORKER:
Bring down a pallet with six more.

BILL:
Oh, man.

PAUL: What?

I was just thinking
about Harvard.

It'll pass.

Hey, Paul.

Right on schedule.

How you doing?
Good to see you.

Hi, Ed.

So... are you...?

Are you Bill?

Are you Ed?

Well, I'll be damned.

Signing bonus?

I've never given
a signing bonus

in all my life.

You know, Ed,
in our other contracts,

we always get
a signing bonus.

Other contracts?

Yeah, our other contracts.

Well, I don't know.

I don't know.

Okay.

Two thousand.

Four thousand.

What?

Of course.

Next, Ed, this business
of a $15 royalty

for BASIC
sold in every 4K Altair,

it's just not acceptable.

Let me tell you
something, boy.

This ain't the way
I do business.

And I especially don't like
being dictated to

by some little...

Ed, Ed, this is not
about dictating.

You see, this is about reality.

The reality is, is that
your machine is brilliant,

but it needs
our language.

And without it,
you know,

it's just a tin box
that lights up.

So let's double our royalty
from $15 to $30 a copy.

BALLMER:
So back then,

I get postcards
from these guys.

"Wish you were here,"
and all that.

Yeah, right. Albuquerque.

Bill and Paul were living
in this crummy motel

working with a bunch
of student employees,

acting like they had a clue

about being
in the computer business.

Eureka.

What?

I created a program
that can play blackjack.

Chris, you've been
here two days,

and you're
into blackjack?

Yeah, so?

So, you got work
to do.

Oh, God, no.

Not Frank Sinatra.

Not "My Way."
Not again.

Spare us.

So, Paul, I'm putting in $909,
and you're in for 606,

and we're keeping
the Microsoft name, right?

You know how you told Ed

that we're leasing
whole office buildings?

What if he finds out

that our corporate
headquarters

are in that
roach motel

with two student employees?

BILL:
You think they're hookers?

Either that
or motel inspectors.

I saw that one

going in and out of
the motel room next door

about a dozen times yesterday.

WO
Oh, baby.

I quit Harvard for this?

You wanted glamour.
You got glamour.

WO
Come on, baby.

Quit bitching
or else go get us that pizza.

WO
Oh, yeah.

Oh! Oh! Oh!

Oh, baby,
come on! Yes!

♪ I've lived
A life that's full ♪

♪ I've traveled
Each and every highway ♪

♪ Regrets, I've had a few ♪

♪ But then again... ♪

Rise and shine.

Wakey wakey.

Your 9:30's here.

You left your MasterCard
in the restaurant again yesterday.

That's the third time
this month.

The hotel in Dallas called

and said you left your suit
in the room

when you checked out.

Hertz called back

and said they will never
rent you a car again.

Two more
speeding violation citations.

And wash your hair.
No, comb your hair, wash it later,

and change your shirt.

It's over there.

We're here for our 9:30
with your president,

Mr. Gates.

Mr... Gates?

Hello?

Oh, I forgot to tell you.
Paul left a message.

He said to tell you

if you get thrown in jail again tonight,

you're on your own.

You have to find somebody else
to bail you out.

Okay?

CHRIS:
Whoa!

Jeez, Bill,
isn't this Paul's car?

You know, I figured it out.

Whoa!

Exercise is bad for your health.

You see, if you take
a normal pulse rate,

70 per minute...

...times the average life span,
which is 75 years...

Too fast, Bill. Please.
Let's see, that's...

70 times 60 minutes,
times 24 hours, times 365 days.

Come on, please.

That's 37 million heartbeats
times 75 years.

Slow down!

Hey, Chris. Take a look.

Bill.

No way, man.

Bill!

The keys are in it.

I don't know if this
is such a good idea, Bill.

Can you get off
that thing?

Come on.

I think you steer
with the pedals

and these levers.

No. Bill...

Come on. Please.

Okay, don't worry about it.

Yeah, right.

On your mark.

Get set.

Go!

You're going down.

No way, man.

Whoo!

WOZNIAK:
Microsoft?

Nobody I knew
ever heard of Microsoft

or Bill Gates.

I mean, they were nobodies.

But then we were all nobodies,
which was perfect for us.

Because all the respectable,
straight-arrow guys

were busy doing
what they always do,

which is be respectable,

which meant

the rest of us could run around
acting like crazies,

which is what we did best.

I miss those days.

A bulldozer?

Who's this Apple
Computer?

You hit my car
with a bulldozer, Bill?

I'm sorry.

WOZNIAK:
Back then, we went looking

for someone who had
the kind of software we needed.

The only place we found was
this dinky little company in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

It says Apple wants a contract
for $21,000 to license BASIC.

Do you know what
this means, Paul?

Yeah, yeah.

It means that
we're desperate for business.

We're nearly bankrupt.

And even worse,
we're in Albuquerque.

I just got this car, Bill.

I don't believe you.

A damn bulldozer?
I'm sorry.

I think that this means

that there's something
really going on

out there in California.

Nine forty-five.

A.m. or p.m.?

Opens in 15 minutes.

I'm so tired
I can't see straight.

What if they find out

we've only made three
of these computers,

and we're acting like
we got a whole assembly line full of the damn things?

What then?

Hey, Woz.

No sleeping
in the booth, Woz.

You're cluttering up
the joint.

Steve, you know, all of a sudden

we're working harder
than our fathers

who we laughed at
for how hard they worked.

I don't get it.

Come on.
Still gotta change.

Change what?

Doors will open in 15 minutes.

WOZ:
Oh, my God.

Steve.

What?

What?

No.

Like I have to
have a mustache?

A suit.

You actually bought a suit.

Two minutes to 10.

Well, you think anyone
will show up?

How the hell
should I know that?

Of course they're
gonna show up.

I don't know. Maybe.

Is my tie okay?

There it is.

WOZNIAK:
Unbelievable.

It was practically like
being a rock star or something.

People swarming all over you,

hordes of them coming

to see
this amazing little machine

with 62 chips

and ICs
that make all these colors.

STEVE JOBS:
Hard plastic, molded casing.

You've never
seen this...

65.02 and up.

No, we got
them beat.

WOZNIAK:
And when the guys from Microsoft showed up,

I mean, how were we to know
who they were?

Them standing there,

looking at
an empty Altair booth

on one side

and us
on the other.

I mean, who would you choose?

Hi. How are you?
Hi. How are you?

Hi.
How you doing? Steve.

I'm Bill Gates.

Yeah, hi.
Chairman of Microsoft.

Yeah. Nice to see you.

Microsoft, we design...

Yeah, good to
see you.

Hey, Steve. Over here.

Hi, John.

Excuse me.
Excuse me.

No, wait, come here.
Come here.

Maybe he just didn't
hear you or something.

Yeah, maybe.

For the first time
in my life,

people are coming
to me,

instead of me
going to them.

Man, this
is insanely great.

WOZNIAK:
I'm telling you, it was a weird time.

People were going nuts
over the Apple II.

I couldn't keep up
with anything.

The company was expanding
so fast,

I didn't know who half
the new people were.

And Steve had a lot of people,
you know, older people,

start pay attention to him,
which was amazing.

And me too, sort of.

People even knew who I was.

Hi.

It should have
been fun,

but with all the good stuff,
bad stuff came too.

Steve.
What?

Oh, jeez.
Not again.

What?

What? What?

What are you...?

What are you talking about,
it's not your child?

Look, how do I even know
if this baby's mine?

You know.
How do I know that?

Damn you, you know.

Steve, I'm two months pregnant.

Who else
have I been with?

Look, you go do whatever
it is you wanna do.

You wanna play mommy? Fine.
But the kid's not mine.

It is. It is.

You bastard!

God.

What did they say?

Hey, Steve.

Take a look
at this.

Carl's got that parity
on that BASIC...

You guys are not being paid
to be a bunch of clowns!

Or maybe you are.

Maybe that's
the problem around here.

You guys are supposed
to be writing programs.

Steve, we were just doing...

I need people
with talent.

I need artists!

What the hell
are you morons

but a bunch
of clock-punching losers?

Huh, tell me?

And here is another letter
of recommendation.

Well, Mr. Brewster,

we've looked
at your application,

and I see a lot
of mainframe experience here.

Six years.

Actually...

Six-and-a-half.

Steve?

I don't know if you've met
Steve Jobs.

Yes. Uh, no.

It's good to meet you.

Right.

Um, uh, you were
in marketing, correct?

That was before
the programming.

Yeah.

I took night-school courses
at San Jose State.

You look like an IBM type.

Well... no.

But I did have a chance
in college

to be interviewed by them,

and they
liked me enough.

They flew me out
to their headquarters

back east.

Oh, I'm sure they did.

N-No, I-I did, see?

I was one
of about a dozen people

that they really
recruited.

Are you a virgin?

Steve, come on.

What?

Am I wh-what?

Are you a virgin?

I... Uh...

No.

How old were you
when you first got laid?

I don't... I don't...

Steve, will you leave him alone?

I asked you a question.

My...

My wife and I
have been married

since we were in grad school.

I didn't ask you
about your wife.

You're still a virgin.

You just think you're not.

You don't fit in here.

Why are you even
wasting our time?

I, uh...

Yeah, I'll run
a test on it.

Steve...

You demolished that guy.

Woz, what we're doing
right now

is like...

opening doors.

Every day.

If you open the wrong one,

all sorts of bad things
will come at you.

You gotta be careful
which door you open.

You want me to go apologize
to that guy?

Well, he probably
left.

You know, Steve,
there's things

you probably have
to get past with me.

But I'm telling you,

there's things that
I have to get past with you.

I mean, people say stuff
about you sometimes,

and I don't listen to them,
because I know you.

I mean, I excuse stuff
because we're friends.

It's worth it. It is.

It's worth it. It's worth it.
It's worth it.

BALLMER:
It was about that time,

maybe five years
after I got out of Harvard,

I get this call from Bill,

who says, "You wanna join
me and Paul?"

It was a two-bit little company
they called Microsoft.

"And at first I think, " Yeah.

Like I'd like to lose
more hair."

But, you know,
then I started thinking.

You know how you survive?

You make people need you.

You survive...

because you make them need
what you have.

And then
they have nowhere else to go.

Right now we're dead.

Nobody needs us.

So we make 'em
need us?

We're too small even to matter.

We could be
snuffed out tomorrow,

and no one
would notice.

You know what they say
in the Mafia?

You keep your friends close
but your enemies closer.

Which enemies
are you talking about?

BALLMER:
I got some full barf bags here.

Full barf bags.

Heads up.
He's sick.

Bald guy with barf bags.

Coming through. Full ones too.

How you doing?

♪ We know you ♪

♪ They know me ♪

♪ Extrasensory... ♪

Come on.

♪ Synchronicity ♪

♪ A star fall ♪

♪ A phone call ♪

♪ It joins all ♪

♪ Synchronicity... ♪

My tie.
I forgot my tie.

Great, Bill.

We're already late.

Aah.

Hey, how you doing?
Ten bucks for your tie.

Okay, 20.

Thirty.

Come on. Come on.

Thirty. Thirty bucks
for that tie.

Where did you get that, Sears?

Come on. Help us out here.

Would you? Please?

♪ Synchronicity ♪

♪ Synchronicity... ♪

BALLMER:
You see, by that time, Bill had already figured out

that we gotta go right into
the belly of the beast,

the scariest beast
of 'em all, IBM.

IBM.

And back then, man...

they were like Attila the Hun,
Genghis Khan,

and Vlad the Impaler

all rolled into one.

But what we were gonna do was

we were gonna
make 'em love us.

Gentlemen,
how are you?

Nice tie.
Thanks.

We're over here.

Our shirts are as white as theirs.

We think we have
what you need.

That's a start.

Now, we know

that IBM
has set up this place

to compete head-on
with Apple,

and that
you're gearing up

to come out with
a personal computer

that will
wipe them out.

So we can get you
an operating system.

What kind of operating system?

It's called... DOS.

This is amazing.

Not just amazing,
it's historic.

It should be taught
in all the history books,

I mean, hung and framed
in the National Gallery

or something,

because this
is the instant of creation,

of one of the greatest fortunes
in the history of the world.

I mean, Bill Gates
is the richest guy in the world

because of what started
in this room.

You wanna know what else?

It wasn't exactly
smoke and mirrors,

but we didn't have anything.

I mean, not a damn thing.

Here we were,
this two-bit little outfit,

telling IBM we had the answer
to their problems.

DOS?

The Disk Operating System?

To make all those
zillion IBM computers compute?

We didn't even remotely
own anything

like what Bill
was selling them.

Nada, zip.

Of course, we don't just
wanna sell it to you outright.

We wanna be able
to license it to you.

You want to retain ownership?

Right.

Well, the profits
are in the computers themselves,

not this
software stuff.

Mm.

No big deal.

Oh, and one other thing.

We have to be able
to sell it to other outfits.

But...

there was just
one little problem.

Bill, why did you tell them
we have an operating system?

We don't have a thing
to sell them now, you know.

We're dead.

We're not. You'll give us
that miracle, right, Paul?

Oh, yeah, right.

Well, come on,
you said you knew a guy

who we could buy
an operating system from.

No, I said
I sort of know him.

Sort of? You heard me.
Don't tell me "sort of."

I just told IBM.

Sort of.

Here you go.

Thanks.

So, basically, you're saying

you wanna buy
my operating system.

Yeah.

Why?

You know, I don't know.

We just think we might be able
to, you know, mess with it

and resell it.

Who to?

We have a few customers
we're sort of talking to.

Some of 'em don't
want it known

what we're doing
with them.

So they made us sign
a secrecy agreement.

And you're offering us...?

Fifty thousand.

Dollars?

Dollars.

You worried?

Oh, no. Only my whole life
hangs in the balance.

Me, worried? No.

We got IBM. IBM!

I mean, come
to think of it,

why would IBM
wanna make a deal

with a bunch of bozos
like us?

Because they're successful,
Ballmer.

You know, success is a menace.

It fools smart people into
thinking that they can't lose.

So?

So, you mute moron?

Whoo!

♪ Baby, babe
Let's get together... ♪

BALLMER:
Can you hear it?

The sound of money?

The roar of money.

It was like
everywhere you turned,

money started pouring down
on you,

millions and more millions,

all because we bought
that guy's operating system

for a measly 50,000 bucks.

That fueled
a worldwide explosion of wealth

unlike anything
in the history of man.

But you know something?

Having money and being cool

are not necessarily
the same thing.

Hi, I'm Bill Gates...

Hey. What in the...?

Hi.

You know, you should really
watch where you're going.

You must have
really great bandwidth.

Excuse me?

What are you doing later?

♪ Oh, do a little dance ♪

♪ Make a little love... ♪

Who is that jerk?

♪ Get down tonight
Get down tonight... ♪

Way to go, hotshot.

You know, when Paul and I
were at Lakeside...

we were in 10th grade
together...

we rigged a computer
so we could get put into class

with all
the best girls.

Obviously, it's been
downhill since then.

Maybe you should walk around
with your bankbook

hanging from a chain
on your belt.

Or maybe
you ought to stop yelling

in front of your employees.

Girls don't like yelling.
They like cool.

Oh, really, Ballmer?
How do you get to be cool?

I don't know.

You saw Saturday Night Fever.
Travolta's cool.

♪ Get down tonight ♪

♪ Do a little dance ♪

♪ Make a little love ♪

♪ Get down tonight
Whoo ♪

♪ Get down tonight ♪

♪ Do a little dance ♪

♪ Make a little love ♪

♪ Get down tonight
Whoo ♪

♪ Get down... ♪

I'd like to welcome
all of you

to the new headquarters
and home of Apple Computers.

WOZNIAK:
All of a sudden, Steve was a huge star...

You know, the kind

where people practically hang
on your every word

like they're excited
just to be around you.

Thank you very much
for joining us today

on this lovely day

and helping us
stop the gossip rumors

in their tracks.

So without further ado,
the rumors are true.

Ladies and gentlemen,
our new president, John Sculley.

To tell you
the truth,

I was perfectly happy
to be president of Pepsi-Cola

until Steve Jobs
came to recruit me and said,

"Do you wanna sell
sugared water

"for the rest
of your life,

or do you wanna
make history?"

Yeah.
Yeah.

I know.

STEVE JOBS:
Yeah, operator...

Give me
I need information a minute. for Oregon.

Steve, I gotta talk.

I don't know how to act
in situations like this.

In a minute.

I mean, Steve,
that stock-offering thing?

A hundred million dollars?

What do you do
with $116 million?

In a minute!

I don't think rich,
Steve, okay?

I know a lot
of people think rich,

but I don't think rich.

I mean, maybe you learn it,
but, jeez, $100 million.

I mean, that's a lot
of learning to do.

I hardly ever
had enough for lunch

before all this.

We should have given stock
to the other guys, Steve.

Like Dan?

I mean, Dan's been with us
since we started,

and you didn't set aside
any stock for him.

Steve...

I'm gonna give Dan
some of my stock.

Yeah, is Arlene there?

We gotta do
the right thing.

Arlene? Okay, fine.

Let's talk about this baby.

Steve, why do you care
what I call the baby?

Because I don't want
the baby named Rainbow.

Or Orisha or Ravi Shankar,
or any other name like that.

Steve, not
right now, okay?

Well, when the hell
is a good time to call?

Because every time I try...

Oh.

Steve...

♪ Pray for the mice ♪

♪ That are blind
Like the world ♪

♪ Never see the good
That is done to the bad ♪

♪ It's too late to see ♪

♪ Two of us make it easier
To read the signs ♪

♪ Memorize the lines ♪

♪ You play with me ♪

♪ One for the road
I'll be on my way ♪

♪ Come another day ♪

♪ When the things we say
Find a way to be ♪

♪ A way to be ♪

WO
Do you want me to take that?

Thank you.

You're welcome.

Hi.

Hi.

So I just came by
to make sure everything's okay.

Everything okay?

Thank you.

And to, uh...

make sure that
you're not gonna name it

some weird name.

What's wrong
with naming her Orisha?

Or Sunshine or Purity?

A kid's got enough problems
in this world...

not knowing where
it belongs.

A name can label
a kid...

Make it, um...

It can make it an outsider.

Not "it."

Her.

Her.

Psst. Lisa.

Okay.

Okay.

She's your daughter too.

Arlene... let's not
go through that again.

You don't just live in life.

You change it, you shape it,
you make your mark upon it.

And that's what...
get used to the name...

Lisa is gonna do.

Yeah!

WOZNIAK:
You know, that computer

was the first big new project
we had at Apple.

And some people
are still wondering

why Steve insisted
on that name.

You wanna call a computer
"Lisa"?

Isn't that
your baby's...?

I mean...

What's her name?
Arlene.

Isn't that Arlene's
baby's name?

Other guys here have
daughters named Lisa.

Steve, you got a baby up there
you don't even wanna talk about.

I mean,

it looks sort of...

Sort of what?

We have to think of ourselves
as artists.

And it's like Picasso said:
Good artists copy.

Great artists steal.

WOZNIAK:
This is who we wanted to steal from.

Xerox.

They were secretly developing
all this amazing stuff,

like the mouse and the graphics
on the screen

instead of just
a bunch of numbers.

But when those
California engineers

had to go to New York

and present all this neat stuff
to the Xerox brass,

those executives
didn't begin to understand

what they were looking at.

Never mind a mouse.

It was like
someone dumped a dead rat

on the boardroom table.

♪ Long time, no see ♪

♪ Short time... ♪

A mouse.

You want Xerox to consider
something called a mouse?

♪ There's a place
A Gemini dream ♪

♪ There's no escaping
From the love we have seen... ♪

WOZNIAK:
See, this is where Steve was a genius,

because he persuaded Xerox's
head office

into showing us
all this incredible stuff

their California guys
had developed.

I'm telling you, it was making
their people absolutely nuts.

Oh, God.

♪ The time is right
To rock 'n' roll ♪

♪ Right through
The night ♪

Let's go.

WOZNIAK:
You know, I felt like one of the Mongol hordes

coming to loot and plunder

a bunch
of defenseless villagers.

No, no, no.
This is insane.

We'd just be
handing him everything.

We created the mouse,
and all the rest of it,

and now these idiots
in New York

want to show it all
to Steve Jobs.

I won't do it.

Hi.

I'm Steve Jobs.

I need you to answer
some other questions

about the stuff you've invented.

The graphic interface?

It's not going to hurt.

That's what you think.

What do you want to know?

What is your base length?
Is it integer, or is it compound?

Does your operating system
convert to executable codes?

I got it, Steve-O.
I got it, Steve-O.

What is
the middle...?

It's pretty neat,
right?

Click, you're there.

Click, you're somewhere else.

This graphic interface stuff
was like a miracle back then,

and we got it.

Steve got it, from Xerox,

who just turned it all over
for us to fool with

like rich people
giving junky old stuff

to the Salvation Army,

only the junk turns out
to be a Rembrandt,

about $100 billion head start
on everyone else.

Apple was making
tons of money.

It was great.

And, of course,
I sort of lost my mind.

I mean, it was
all fun and games.

I started buying
really expensive toys.

It was me with my own plane.

Only problem was,

maybe I wasn't as good a pilot
as I thought I was.

I mean, it's one thing
when computers crash,

but planes?

You don't want to know.

Hey, Steve.
Are you just getting here?

No, I was just outside
talking to the doctor.

You don't remember us
talking 10 minutes ago?

We talked?

Yeah.

Hey, my hard disk crashed.

Mm hmm.

A computer guy
with memory problems.

Oh... man.

It's the weirdest thing,

because you know there's a part
of your life that's there,

only you don't know about it.

It makes you crazy.

Hey.

Hey!

Paul!

Simonyi, get Matthews.

Ballmer, get in here.

What is it?

This is seriously crummy.

Apple's new computer, Lisa?
We're dead.

Oh, yeah, I've already
seen one of these.

The graphics and
the operating system they have on these,

they make the stuff
we're selling IBM

look about a decade
out-of-date.

I want it.

What do you mean, you want it?

I mean, it's Apple's.
We can't just go and steal it.

No, no,
you're not listening to me.

I want it!

Final call

for TWA flight 2684
to San Jose.

Final call.

Fifty bucks
he misses the flight.

You're on.

It wouldn't hurt
to buy a car radio, Bill.

I can't pick up
the radio...

One traffic report.

Hold on.

Sir, we're
on this plane.

I'm sorry. Your plane
is on the runway.

Excuse me, ma'am, what kind
of service is this today?

I'm sorry, sir.

There's nothing
that can bring that plane back to the gate.

Yes, there is.
Willpower.

I'm gonna will that
that plane

be turned around
right now, please.

Oh, really?

Really, sir.

Are you aware
that today, in my briefcase,

are computer
language codes?

Do you know
what they do, sir?

I'm afraid I don't.

They protect against viruses.

You're aware of viruses,
I presume?

Sir, I do go to doctors.

No, sir, computer viruses.

Oh, yeah, I just read an
article about those things.

They could wipe out
a whole computer.

A whole system of computers,
ma'am,

like the one
behind your terminal there,

like the one in the plane
on the airline,

like the one on all
the planes on the airlines,

like the one
in the control tower, sir.

Sir, I ask you today,

are you prepared
to take responsibility for your actions

if I don't get this information
on that plane?

Jeez, his reputation

for inconveniencing
the rest of the world

is intact.

He actually
missed the flight.

Folks, this is
your captain speaking.

We have to return to the gate
for a few minutes.

Nothing critical.

WO
Attention, please, flight...

Your tickets, please.

You have
the tickets, right?

No, I gave
them to you.

Bill, in the car.

Wow.

These guys must be
50 times bigger than we are.

Good artists copy.

Great artists steal.

Oh, yeah?
Who said that?

Some artist.

I think
it was Van Gogh.

Hey, check it out.

BALLMER:
Aye, matey.

It wouldn't be time
to rape and pillage, would it?

GILMORE:
You sure it's okay

to let these
Microsoft guys in here?

We have culture.
They don't.

No taste.
No original thinking.

But they can be
useful to us.

Time for the dog
and pony show.

Welcome to Apple.

JOBS:
Bill.

Nice to see you.
Thank you for coming.

Steve.
How you doing, Steve?

Glad you're here.

Paul.
Hi. Steve Jobs.

Hi. Charles
Simonyi.

Come on in. Let me
introduce you around.

This is Gilmore.

He's one of
our top programmers.

And he's a loyal man.

Well, to do this,
you need loyalty.

Total loyalty.
Isn't that right?

That's the plan, Steve.

This way.

The Macintosh team.

It's more like a family.

Everybody else
is an outsider.

What's with
the pirate stuff?

What do I always
tell you?

Better to be a pirate
than join the Navy.

You a pirate?
Oh, yeah.

Yeah, absolutely, Steve.

I've been up
for 52 hours straight.

Loyalty.

I'm gonna show you the future.

It's top-secret.

It's still about a year
away from introduction.

The ultimate, insanely great
fusion of art and science.

It's called
the Macintosh.

This is definitely
not the Lisa.

That's a graphic user interface.

I don't understand.

How does a computer handle
the mouse-cursor display?

No, no, no, the hardware's got
nothing to do with the mouse.

It's all right here
in the software.

Enough!

Sorry, Steve.

There's no point
in torturing our guests...

with what
they can't have.

You're vulnerable
in spreadsheets,

you know, Steve.

We can help you.

Ninety hours
a week.

Like the T-shirt?

I'm gonna give it to my people.

Some of 'em work even more
than 90 hours a week.

We have Multiplan running

on dozens
of different platforms.

No one can match us.

You can't just have
employees anymore.

It's great.

No, they gotta
be into a crusade.

It's like
art, science, religion,

all rolled into one.

We have multi-tool
interface.

It can be redesigned
for the Mac.

Redesigned.

Redesigned.

We're artists here.

A place where raw sand
comes in one end

and goes out the other.

Silicon art.

You know, IBM,

they're gonna want
all our stuff.

IBM?

IBM... they're history.

I mean, they're 1950s,
they're ice America,

they're a bloated enemy
in a crumbling castle.

And we're
storming it.

I know IBM
is the enemy, Steve.

But we can help you.

You don't have to worry
about IBM.

Yeah?

So why you even working
with them?

I'd much rather work with you.

We're in.

We're doing work
for Apple.

You're kidding me.

No. They're sending us
three prototypes

of the new computer
we just saw.

The Macintosh.
For God sakes.

There's a pirate flag
flying above our heads,

and he's giving us
the crown jewel?

I mean, who the hell's
the pirate here?

The guy sees
what he believes,

not the other way
around.

We're not
his worst problem.

If he's not careful,
he's gonna wreck the place.

Macintosh!
Macintosh!

Macintosh rules!

Apple II's the best!

Mac's the best!

WOZNIAK:
Even when I got my memory back,

it was never the same
for me.

I couldn't believe
how it had all changed.

Apple was tearing itself
to pieces.

Steve had turned it
into two camps:

his new Macintosh group

against everyone else
in the company.

♪ Everybody
Wants to rule the world ♪

Steve, what the hell
is this?

It's like a family.

Things get messy.

I don't understand this.

You got the Mac people
against the Apple II people?

They're beating
each other up.

It's amazing, huh?

People wanna be shaped, molded.

But if you asked any
of 'em, any of 'em,

they'd deny it.

I don't wanna shape anybody,
Steve.

This isn't fun anymore.

Maybe "fun"
is just fragments of existence

with better packaging.

I don't make jokes anymore.

I told you a long time ago,
I like jokes.

Steve!

Goodbye.

I'm quitting Apple.

Well, that's a joke, right?

No.

I'm going back to college.

Woz.

Hey, what are you
doing?

I don't think
it's such a good idea.

All I'm doing now
is being a brake pedal for you

as you're heading
for the wall.

Woz!

I ask you
for brilliance?

Steve...

I've asked you
for genius,

and you're
giving me this?

Steve, please.

Oh, no, Steve,
not again.

It's 3 a.m., okay?

I don't have
the energy

to defend
an unfinished design.

That's because
there's nothing to defend.

I want beauty,
not incompetence.

Are you listening to me?

Are you listening...?

Yes, I'm listening!

I am so sick
of your abusiveness.

That's all you know.

Tearing people down,
throwing tantrums.

You miserable
son of a bitch.

What are you doing?

Come on,
back off.

STEVE JOBS:
I know we've been in a battle

And like all battles,

we've had our casualties
along the way.

But today's about celebrating.

The Macintosh.

It's time for a christening...

of our little Macintosh,

our baby.

Congratulations.

Congratulations.

Real artists ship.

In this company, in Apple,
in the entire business,

we, you, the Macintosh team,

are the only true artists.

You can forget Apple,
forget Lisa.

It's only us.

The Macintosh team.

We have been chosen
to seize history.

Yeah!

But first, carpe diem,
seize the day.

It's your time
to party, people.

Hey, John.

You hear what
I heard in there?

GILMORE:
Hey, man, what'd you say about Steve?

I'm sick of his crap.

What'd you say, man?

You heard me.

You wanna talk like that
about Steve?

You wanna talk
like that

about the guy
who feeds you, man?

The guy
who feeds you?

Huh? Come on.

MAN 2:
Break it up.

Come on.

MAN 3:
Hey, hey. Guys.

Never like this
at Pepsi-Cola.

MAN 4:
Knock it off.

You wanna sell
sugar water

the rest
of your life?

Steve... I'm worried.

Yeah?

Yeah, about
what's happening.

All the, you know,
"them versus us" stuff.

Macintosh versus Apple II.

You don't understand, John.

People need a cause.

We missed Vietnam.

This is our Vietnam.

It's tearing the company apart.

Creation is messy.

You want genius,
you get madness.

Two sides of the same coin.

You knew that
when I brought you in.

Steve, if you can't trust me,
then God help you.

I didn't mention anything
about trust, John.

There's another problem.

It's Arlene and the baby.

That's my business.

No. Not anymore.

Time magazine
is doing another story.

You don't need
the bad press.

Neither do we.

Child's not mine.
Steve, come on.

You took
a paternity test.

She is yours.
It's right there in the results.

Paternity tests are a joke.

She's asking for $20,000.

Total.
Nothing more.

Blackmail.
You can afford the money.

Give her what she's asking for.

You should
give her more.

It's not about the damn money.

Well, what is it, then?

I don't know.

Mommy, there's a man here.

It's been what,

a year?

Yeah, I've been busy.

I'm sure.

Why'd you come?

I don't know.

She's looking really good.

You should have come
to see her.

Well, you could have
brought her by.

Oh, Steve.

Here.

Thank you.

Thank you, Lisa.

Steve Jobs is killing us.
Ballmer!

Yeah?
This stuff is crummy. It's totally crummy.

Windows was supposed to ship
last year, in case you forgot.

We're ready for you,
Mr. Gates.

Why do I have to do this?
I have work to do.

This is so stupid.

It's good PR.

It's for The Wall Street
Journal.

I don't need PR.

Can you stand a little
to the left?

The hole in that sweater
of your shirt...

Turn all the way
to the right.

What am I,
a trained seal?

If Apple can do this,
why can't we?

What else do you
want us to do?

Whatever you have to.
Meaning what, Bill?

Meaning ship Windows
before the snow falls.

Hey, Bill, this is Seattle.
It doesn't snow here.

Whatever, Steve.

Mr. Gates, I think maybe
you should take off your sweater

because it clashes
with the background.

The green and blue, it's
just not in these days.

It's not in at all.

Sweat stains.
This is awful.

I'd like to get
back to work...

I know. We're almost ready.

And okay. And three...
two... one.

Smile, please.

Urgent, Mr. Gates.

Thank you.

What's next?

Steve Jobs.

"Mr. Jobs demands you be
in his office tonight."

He's getting paranoid
over what we're doing, Steve.

Maybe he should be.

Not at the pace
you're going.

You know what,

I think I had a date
tonight with Ann.

I thought she was away
on business.

She is.

Well, then, how
can you have a date?

Well, I go
to a movie here,

and then she goes
to the same movie

in Denver,

and then we talk
on the phone about it afterwards.

Jeez, Bill, I hate
to see what happens

when you two have sex.

You're stealing from us!

Steve, we're not stealing
from you.

So don't tell me that.

What the hell are you doing,
then?

What is this that I keep hearing
about you developing this...

What do you call it?

Windows?

To compete with us?

I'm not doing anything...
against you, Steve.

Don't give me that crap!

You're pirating the software
off our Mac prototypes!

I trusted you!

If you wanna know everything
we're working on...

I'll show you.

BALLMER:
The weird thing was

Steve Jobs was the one guy
Bill would never yell at.

It was the opposite.

Steve would order Bill
to fly down there

and then blow up at him,

but Bill,
he would just wait it out,

convince Steve
that we were no threat to him,

that this Windows stuff

was just that much more
smoke and mirrors...

and a few hours later,

everything was fine.

I'm telling you,
Bill's a genius at it.

And that's all
you're working on?

Of course.

Yeah?
You know what else?

Did you read what I said
in that newspaper story on us

two days ago?

No. What'd you say?

I said when your new Macintosh
comes out,

that'd be the only computer
I'd want to buy my mom.

Yeah?

Yeah.

Your mom, huh?

Mm-hmm.

It's like we're one big family,
you know?

Family?

You know that.

Hmm.

Family. Hmm.

Steve, Steve, Steve, Steve!
Steve, Steve, Steve, Steve!

Steve, Steve, Steve,
Steve, Steve!

Steve, Steve, Steve, Steve!
Steve, Steve, Steve, Steve!

Steve, Steve, Steve,
Steve, Steve!

Tell me something.

When did this stop
being a business

and start being
a religion?

STEVE JOBS:
Thank you for your work.

And remember,

what we will do
in the next year

will change
the way people think

and communicate.

Hey. Hey.

STEVE JOBS:
So enjoy the revolution

which we have all created

and watch...

You know,
Steve thinks IBM's the enemy.

He doesn't get it.

You guys are.

What are you
talking about?

Copies of your Windows
just started surfacing here.

You took our stuff, Bill.

You took our stuff,
you fooled with it,

and you called it
your own.

You always insult
your guests like this?

STEVE JOBS:
Make no mistake.

We are all
one big family.

And part of it
are our friends at Microsoft.

Bill?

STEVE JOBS:
Ladies and gentlemen,

Bill Gates.

Finally, I wanna show you
a preview

of the most amazing
60 seconds of film

you'll ever see.

And we're showing it
only once.

During the Super Bowl.

So watch and see
how we handle IBM.

I mean Big Brother.

BALLMER:
See, that commercial was interesting

in a lot of ways

because when we're at
this big hoopla at Apple

and their engineers

are unpacking
all these Japanese computers

with the first copies
of our stuff, Windows,

that looks a lot
like their stuff...

I mean,
if I had to pick a moment...

Hey...

I'm getting some
pretty weird vibes here.

Sure we should
stay around?

Sometimes you deal 'em.

Sometimes you fold 'em.

Now's not the time to fold.

VOICE ON FILM:
We shall prevail.

I obviously made a mistake.

I made a mistake.

I trusted.

I believed.

Family.

Maybe a Mafia
family.

You turn your back,
and you get whacked.

Our guys come back
from Japan with this NEC,

and it's loaded
with Microsoft programs.

Your Microsoft programs.

They're almost
identical to ours.

There may be some similarities,
Steve.

Similarities?

Similarities?

Try theft.

Steve, all cars
have steering wheels,

but no one tries to claim

that the steering wheel
was their invention.

We have a contract, you and I.

Well, you should read it
more carefully.

What is this?

This is like doing business
with, um...

like, a praying mantis.

You get seduced

and then eaten alive
afterwards.

Get real, will you?

You and I are both like guys

that have this rich neighbor...
Xerox,

that left the door open
all the time.

And you go sneaking in
to steal the TV set.

Only when you get there,

you realize
that I got there first.

I got the loot, Steve!

And you're yelling?

"That's not fair.

I wanted to try to
steal it first."

You're too late.

We're better than you are.

We have better stuff.

You don't
get it, Steve.

That doesn't matter.

♪ Oh, when the saints
Go marching in ♪

♪ When the saints
Go marching in... ♪

WOZNIAK:
You know, like a lot of things,

there always seems to be
one last time.

For us, it was when we all
came together again

for this big party Steve threw
for his 30th birthday.

It was just
one of those things,

you know,
where you try really hard

to make something work,
but somehow it just doesn't.

And maybe you should have
known it all along.

Is that really
Ella Fitzgerald?

I have absolutely
no idea.

Hi, chief.

Hey, you hear the kind of
food they're serving here?

Salmon mousse,
goat's cheese.

I can't eat that stuff.
Why don't we go to Denny's?

Is that Joan Baez
with him?

Wait, wait.
Who's Joan Baez?

Hi.
John.

♪ When they crown him
Lord of all ♪

I need to
talk to you. Hey.

It's important.

Okay, John. Excuse me.

We've got a problem.

We've been asked to make a toast
to Steve.

Me? Toast Steve?

No way, man.
Not after what's happened.

No way.

Oh, John, don't look at me.

I... Mike, Mike,
you do it.

After the past few months?

I don't think so.

John,
you're the one.

No. Not now.
Absolutely. No way.

Why not?

Look, Steve thinks I'm his...

He thinks you're what?

Ladies and gentlemen,
a toast.

To a remarkable
man.

A man who brought me
to this company...

without whom
none of this tonight

would ever
have happened.

Steve Jobs,
truly a guiding light.

A man who sees
the future.

Hear! Hear! Steve.

Happy birthday!

It's weird,

but sometimes you find things
that are more important to you

than the things you think
are important.

You know what I mean?

Maybe it's just getting older.

Okay, guys.

Let's see
how we did.

Huh? That's a good one.

That's true.

We're learning about the size
of the sun

versus the size of the Earth.

Hi, Steve.

I think it's gonna be
really interesting.

I mean, you and me together.

Yeah.

It is.

♪ Watch out, you might get
What you're after ♪

♪ Cool babies ♪

♪ Strange but not a stranger ♪

♪ I'm an ordinary guy ♪

♪ Burning down the house ♪

♪ Hold tight ♪

♪ Wait till the party's over ♪

♪ Hold tight ♪

♪ We're in for nasty weather ♪

♪ There has got to be a way ♪

♪ Burning down the house ♪

♪ Here's your ticket
Pack your bag ♪

♪ Time for jumpin' overboard ♪

♪ The transportation is here ♪

♪ Close enough
But not too far ♪

♪ Maybe you know
Where you are ♪

♪ Fightin' fire with fire ♪

♪ All wet ♪

♪ Hey, you might need
A raincoat ♪

♪ Shakedown ♪

♪ Dreams walking
In broad daylight ♪

♪ Three hundred sixty five
Degrees ♪

♪ Burning down the house ♪

♪ It was once upon a place ♪

♪ Sometimes I listen
To myself ♪

♪ Gonna come in first place ♪

♪ People on their way to work ♪

♪ Baby, what did you expect ♪

♪ Gonna burst into flame ♪

♪ Burning down the house ♪