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nebula8804yesterday at 9:09 AM1 replyview on HN

The 2015 movie has the entire second act dedicated to the Next launch no?


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twoodfinyesterday at 4:44 PM

Indeed, 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.