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John Sculley, former CEO of Apple, discusses firing and working with Steve Jobs.  “Do you want to come with me and change the world, or do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of the world.”  Sculley, who had been head of Pepsi, was courted by Jobs to come to Apple and change the world. Sculley speaks respectfully and admirably of Jobs and his power and strength as a leader and someone who was trying to change the world and put a dent in the Universe.  Sculley is portrayed in the Danny Boyle film Steve Jobs by Jeff Daniels. The screenplay was written by Aaron Sorkin.  Sculley fired Jobs after a boardroom showdown over the Macintosh.  Jobs, of course, later returned to Apple and transformed it into one of the most valuable companies in business history.

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Ed Catmull, author of “Creativity, Inc.” and president of Disney Animation Studios and Pixar, discusses the process of disagreeing with Steve Jobs.  It could sometimes take Catmull a week to rebut the quick thinking of Jobs.  Then another week to rebut his follow-up comments. Eventually, he says, there were three possible outcomes: (1) Jobs would come around, (2) Catmull would come around or (3) if no consensus could be found, Jobs would let Catmull do it his own way.

From the Stanford University Technology Ventures program.

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In this in-depth speech Steve Jobs explains exactly how the first Apple computer was built with “liberated” parts and describes how he and Steve Wozniak founded Apple Inc.

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Ron Wayne, Apple’s third co-founder, discusses how the idea for the company originated and describes the meeting he had with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak that led him to invest.

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Apple’s Steve Wozniak explains why Ron Wayne, Apple’s original 3rd investor, decided to sell his shares before the company had its big break.

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Al Alcorn discusses what it was like being the boss at Atari Inc. to a young Steve Jobs. His first-person account reveals how he hired Jobs who had no experience with technology.

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Steve Wozniak discusses the passing of Steve Jobs and discusses all the good times he and Jobs had together at Apple. Steve Paul, along with Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne, was the chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. He is known for his Apple products and revolutionizing the computer and smartphone industry. Jobs died at his Palo Alto, California, home around 3 pm on October 5, 2011, from respiratory arrest.

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Bill Gates discusses the passing of Steve Jobs and how that has impacted his career and personal life. He reveals how he spent a few hours with Jobs before his death and made peace with him. Jobs died at his Palo Alto, California, home around 3 p.m. on October 5, 2011, from respiratory arrest.

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Steve Jobs, former CEO of Apple Inc. introduced the original iPhone that has capabilities to reinvent the phone. His first person account reveals that the new item will have three things: touch controls, revolutionary mobile phone and breakthrough internet communication device. The iPhone is a line of smartphones designed and marketed by Apple Inc. The first generation iPhone was released on June 29, 2007. The user interface is built around the device's multi-touch screen, which includes a virtual keyboard.

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Author: Morgan Birck

According to the-numbers.com, in 2013, computer-animated movies earned over $1.6 billion at the box office. Ten digitally animated films topped the $50 million mark.

Traditional animation, meanwhile, is floundering. In 2012, Disney announced that it had no hand-drawn animated movies under production, and in 2013 Disney laid-off many of its best-known traditional animators. Twenty years ago, there were no computer-animated movies. Now there are no hand-drawn feature films, at least in the United States.

The first digitally animated movie was released in 1995. Due to the extremely long lead time needed to create the vast number of digital pixels in a feature film, it wasn’t until 1998 that the public got to see another digitally animated movie with “Antz” and “A Bug’s Life” both coming out that fall. “Toy Story 2” was the only computer-animated film in 1999, and 2000 saw zero such movies. Anything digital was automatically an event movie in those early days of the technology.

It’s a remarkable testament to Pixar that the company married its new technology to a clever script of engaging characters. In fact, many of the the reviews of Pixar’s first film, “Toy Story,” from 1995 brush-off the technological advancements while raving about the story-telling:

“Toy Story” pops off the screen with a vibrancy that’s totally unlike traditional hand-painted animation. Harder-edged, with a super-realist sheen, the images have such a tactile, three-dimensional presence that you have to keep reminding yourself they’re not by human hands.
— David Ansen, Newsweek

As a visual feat, “Toy Story” makes the “naturalism” of Disney’s cartoon features look about as advanced as cave paintings.
— Owen Glieberman, Entertainment Weekly

For the kids in the audience, a movie like this will work because it tells a fun story, contains a lot of humor, and is exciting to watch. Older viewers may be even more absorbed, because “Toy Story,” the first feature made entirely by computer, achieves a three-dimensional reality and freedom of movement that is liberating and new.
— Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

While 3-D computer-generated images provide the raw materials of this miniature buddy flick — set in a world in which toys have lives of their own — Disney’s unrivaled ability to wed emotional depth to high-tech razzle-dazzle endows “Toy Story” with its authentic heart and soul.
— David Baron, New Orleans Times-Picayune

“Toy Story” is no ordinary kiddie movie. It’s unsentimental, politically incorrect and – barring a couple of superior numbers from Randy Newman — free of those “heartwarming” songs which make animated films such an ordeal for grown-ups. It’s so entertaining, indeed, that adult viewers may be asking themselves, “Can this really have come from the same studio that brought us ‘Pocahontas’?”
— James Delingpole, London Telegraph

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