different circumstances would be painters and poets but because of that time that we lived in, this new medium has appeared in which to express ones self to one s fellow species and that s a medium of computing. andrea cunningham is a marketing guru who helped jobs bring the macintosh into the world in 1984. andy, thank you so much for being with us. this documentary, this film, is fascinating because it talks about the innovation, everything that he brought to our culture. but it also talks about what a lot of people say is another side of steve jobs, a tough side, a not so nice side. do you think there are those complicated sides to steve jobs? hey, thanks for having me. yes, of course. many complicated sides to steve jobs. he was very challenging and very difficult. but his brilliance and his vision for changing the world i think overtook anything that could possibly be seen as negative. now, a lot of people have trouble working with him, but if
were unveiling, it didn t turn out in some ways to be the macintosh that we all came to use, did it? no, it was actually a failure in the first year or so. it was a failure. and if it weren t for the apple 2 and the rest of apple, the company may have gone out of business. so i think we have everybody at apple to thank for the ultimate success of the mac. but steve made the changes that were required to make to make it a marketable product. there was a lot of buzz about it, so it was able to catch on some time after it was launched. yes, you re right, it was not a success immediately. at first, the computer for the rest of us, meaning the common man, but it turned into a computer for the best of us, sort of an elite advice people used at home. andy cunningham, thank you so much for sharing with us today. thanks a lot, thanks for having me. you do not want to miss alex sydney s look at the real story of steve jobs, steve jobs, the