Steve Jobs film is wrong, says Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak
"We never had such interaction and roles," Wozniak, who quit Apple in 1987 after 12 years, told tech blog Gizmodo after a clip from the movie was posted online ahead of its premiere. "I'm not even sure what it's getting at," he said, adding that the "personalities are very wrong - although mine is closer."
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak questioned the accuracy of a film about Steve Jobs as the movie opened with a red carpet premiere, while its makers stressed it was not a documentary.
Wozniak said the movie jOBS - which opened at the Sundance Film Festival on Friday - erred in its depiction of characters as well as the relationships between them, especially the one between him and computer icon Jobs.
"We never had such interaction and roles," Wozniak, who quit Apple in 1987 after 12 years, told tech blog Gizmodo after a clip from the movie was posted online ahead of its premiere. "I'm not even sure what it's getting at," he said, adding that the "personalities are very wrong - although mine is closer."
"The ideas of computers affecting society did not come from Jobs. They inspired me and were widely spoken about at the Homebrew Computer Club," said Wozniak, referring to a hobby group to which they belonged.
The film, one of two about the Apple founder who died in 2011, opens in the US in April. The second, which has no release date yet, is based on Jobs' biography published by Walter Isaacson shortly after his death.
Directed by Joshua Michael Stern and starring Two and a Half Men actor Ashton Kutcher, jOBS tells the story of the icon's ascension from college dropout to one of the 20th century's most revered creative entrepreneurs.