Steve Jobs Interview

Titled "Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview," an unedited version of the recently discovered Steve Jobs interview will be screened in select Landmark theaters in the US starting November 16.

Here are the details of the said Steve Jobs interview:

In 1995, during the making of his TV series Triumph of the Nerds about the birth of the PC, Bob Cringely did a memorable hour-long interview with Steve Jobs.

It was 10 years since Jobs had left Apple following a bruising struggle with John Sculley, the CEO he had brought into the company. At the time of the interview Jobs was running NeXT, the niche computer company he had founded after leaving Apple.

During the interview, Jobs was at his charismatic best – witty, outspoken, visionary. In the end, only a part of the interview was used in the series and the rest was thought lost. But recently a VHS copy was found in the series director’s garage. Now, cleaned up with modern technology, and put into context by Cringely, the entire interview will be screened in Landmark Theatres.

In the interview Jobs talks about his pioneering days with Steve Wozniak, when they built a Blue Box and phoned the Pope; how they – "two guys who didn’t know much" -- assembled the first Apple computer and went on to found the Apple company. "I was worth around a million dollars when I was 23, over 10 million dollars when I was 24 and over 100 million dollars when I was 25 – and it wasn’t really important!" Jobs recalls the visits he made to Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and how it inspired the making of the Macintosh, the world’s first modern PC, when he was “on a mission from God to save Apple.” He talks frankly and sadly about his enforced departure from Apple and explains what he is doing at NeXT (which he would soon sell to Apple and whose software would then be at the heart of the first iMac’s operating system). Finally in spell-binding terms, he offers his vision of a digital future – a world of wonderful products created by artists and poets.

Check out the trailer of "Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview" below:


It will have a limited run in the following venues - Atlanta: Midtown Art Cinema, Austin: Violet Crown Cinema, Baltimore: Harbor East, Berkeley: Shattuck Cinemas, Boston: Kendall Square Cinema, Chicago: Century Centre Cinema, Cleveland: Cedar Lee Theatre, Dallas: The Magnolia, Denver: Esquire Theatre, Houston: River Oaks, Indianapolis: Keystone Art Cinema, Los Angeles: Regent Theatre, Milwaukee: Oriental Theatre, Minneapolis: Lagoon Cinema, New York City: Sunshine Cinema, Palm Desert: Cinémas Palme d'Or, Palo Alto: Aquarius Theatre, Philadelphia: Ritz at the Bourse, San Diego: Hillcrest Cinemas, San Francisco: Opera Plaza Cinema, Seattle: Metro Cinemas and Washington D.C.: E Street Cinema.

Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

Tributes have poured in following the untimely demise of Apple founder and former CEO Steve Jobs including messages from Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Sergey Brin and President Barack Obama. Netizens go non-stop in posting anything Steve Jobs on their accounts in various social media sites. Other people, on the hand, have chosen to remember Steve Jobs by pre-ordering books about him on Amazon.

Just a few hours after Apple's confirmation of Steve Jobs' death, three books about the American innovator have abruptly rise to the top spots in Amazon's ranking of "Biggest Gainers in Books Sales" over the past 24 hours.

One of them is a Steve Jobs autobiography book written by Walter Isaacson which propelled from number 388 spot to number 1, 38,700 percent up in the last 24 hours. The release date of the said book is set on November 21, 2011. (Update: The release date was moved to October 24, 2011 according to Associated Press.)

Taking the second rank is "I, Steve: Steve Jobs in His Own Words" which gained 32,536% increase of pre-orders. Written by George Beahm, the book will be out on November 8, 2011.

Another Steve Jobs book, "The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs: Insanely Different Principles for Breakthrough Success" placed fifth on the online store's list. It was written by Carmine Gallo.

Steve Jobs succumbed to pancreatic cancer on October 5, 2011 at the age of 56.