Well, you know
We all want to change the world
But when you talk about destruction
Don't you know that you can count me out
Don't you know it's gonna be all right
Silicon Valley Legends aka Silicon Valley Pirates, whose English name is Pirates Of Silicon Valley, was released in 1999, just as Steve Jobs was back in charge of Apple, trying to get Apple out of trouble with new products. At that time, windows 98 was also in full swing, and the industry had a situation where Microsoft dominated the world. Microsoft owned stakes in many companies, including Apple at the time. The film tells the story of the founders of two companies starting a business, which is thrilling and fascinating.
At the beginning of the film, the students who were protesting against the war in Berkeley were suppressed. Jobs and woz ran through it. When they came to a corner, Jobs said, they thought they were revolutionaries, but in fact we were, we were the ones who could change the world.
What can change the world is not the bloody student citizens who want to overthrow the government, nor the intellectuals who talk eloquently, nor the bosses who save money to do good deeds. The person who changes the world is the person who can give the world direction. At that time, Steve was such a person. Of course, so did Bill.
There is nothing to say about the plot, and many IT history lovers or Mac fans will know it well: Apple dominates the world, swept IBM under the horse, and brought Yu Wei to use Xerox's mouse technology to achieve mac; Microsoft started with basic, and has nothing to do with it. The wolf used dos to make IBM's money, and finally stole Apple's technology to make windows, and the two became enemies.
The preciousness of commercial films lies not only in the shaping of personal images, but also in the way of elaborating some categories. I found this movie to have a lot of thought-provoking lines, and because of the large number, I'll give a few here.
Steve Jobes: We are now...is like...opening doors ,if you open the wrong one, all sorts of bad things will come at you...you gotta be careful which door you open. You gotta be careful which door open.
Here is the famous threshold effect in the legendary IT industry. Note that this is not the same as the threshold effect in psychology.
Bill Gates: You know how you survive? You make people need you, you survive because you make them need what you have and then they have nowhere else to go...
I said Gates, you are more than survive now, right?
Gates: Success is a menace, it fools smart people into thinking they can't lose... This sentence explains why Gates is a strategist and jobs suffer.
Jobs:We have to think of ourselves as artists, .It's like Picasso said:“Good artists copy, Great artists steal.” Better to be a piarate than join the navy.
Who said that piracy is a crime, if it is, then these people also made a fortune.
Of course, the best way to sum up the reasons for success or failure is this dialogue, which happened after the two turned over.
Jobs: We have better stuff. Em, we have better stuff.
Bill: You don't get it, Steve, that doesn't matter.
Maybe everyone thinks that a company's product can be successful? So naive.
In 1999, Microsoft dominated the world, google was unknown, Netscape was about to collapse, IBM made a difficult turn, HP was like a headless fly, and Yahoo survived. However, Steve returned to Apple, and the host company launched the iMac and saved Apple. Until later iPod and iPhone and iMac back to the top... And Microsoft is caught in a bitter battle with google and Linux, not to mention the threat of java to the windows platform. Open source and cloud computing will both be the keys to defeating the Microsoft empire. . .
I vaguely remember that Gates and Jobs were chatting and laughing on the same stage the year before, regardless of the past. Gates still remembers going to Apple to do a small repair job, but now it's a turbulent world. Now the situation is that Gates finally understands his responsibility to be good-hearted, and Jobs is bedridden and battling cancer.
I don't know if they will recall the passionate self who pointed the country back then: poor enough and cool enough.
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