I recently read an interview they did with Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple. In it he said that of the films that have been made about the history of Apple, the one he likes the most and in which his character most closely matches reality is Pirates of Silicon Valley.
The truth is that I had not seen it, and it piqued my curiosity. It's a pretty old TV movie, and it's not available on any of today's digital platforms, so I had to figure out how to find it. It didn't cost me much if you know how to move on the internet and I was watching it last night. The truth is that it is very cool. Were the origins of Apple and Microsoft.
In these days of home confinement we will have a lot of time to consume television, be it movies or series. And we will do this as a family, on TV in the living room, or increasingly, individually on our personal devices. Being confined at home often leads us to create our own space to have some privacy.
Last night I saw myself Silicon Valley Pirates, and I had a great time. I was thrilled watching how two long-haired guys created Apple in their garage at home, watching it on my iMac and listening to it on my AirPods, 45 years later. I'm not going to do spoilers, because we all know the story.
Two longhaired men with a soldering iron. This is how Apple was created.
Love and hate between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates
Pirates of Silicon Valley is a telefilm produced in 1.999, directed by Martyn Burke and starring Noah Wyle, Joey Slotnick, JG Hertzler, Anthony Michael Hall and Wayne Pere.
It tells with real names and with hairs and signs the beginnings of Apple and Microsoft. How Steve Wozniak manufactures his first computer, and how his colleague Steve Jobs he becomes fascinated with the gadget and decides to market it. They called that thing in a wooden box Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),.
Curiously, in the same Californian town and at the same time, back in 1.976, two other boys (these without hair), also some computer geeks, Bill Gates and Paul Allen, they managed to create a software company from scratch and named it Microsoft.
The film is from 1.999, so it only explains the beginnings of the two companies and the love-hate relationship that existed between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. The movie ends on the day of the Macintosh presentation, and the imminent release of the operating system Windows.