Steve Jobs Page #3

STEVE:

Okay, pull the voice demo.

JOANNA:

Thank you.

STEVE:

And then cancel the launch.

JOANNA:

I see, you just (tricked me a

little).

STEVE:

(over)

You can tell me how unimportant it

is but if the computer doesn’t say

hello then neither will John

Sculley who, I promise you, agrees

with me.

JOANNA:

Sculley’s not gonna cancel the

launch ‘cause he’s not insane.

STEVE:

He’s also not a hack and when it

comes to the Macintosh he’s gonna

do what I ask him to do. What is in

this box?

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JOANNA:

Nothing you need to worry about,

don’t even open it.

STEVE opens the flaps on the box and pulls out an issue of

Time magazine. “Machine of the Year” is on the cover with a

picture of a computer. It’s a carton full of copies of Time.

STEVE:

(pause)

What the f*** is--why is there a

carton of--who did this?

JOANNA:

Somebody thought-

STEVE:

Who?

JOANNA:

--doesn’t matter--thought it would

be a good idea to have copies of

that Time cover available at

everyone’s seat. It was nipped in

the bud and all the copies are

being taken out of the building-they’re

probably already out of the

building so...problem solved.

STEVE:

This isn’t a Macintosh.

JOANNA:

I understand.

STEVE:

Somebody thought it would be a good

idea to, like, enthusiastically

hand over copies of Time with a not-

a-Macintosh on the cover at the

launch of the Macintosh? What are

they handing out at Hewlett-

Packard, a bushel of apples with my

face on them?

JOANNA:

I’m sure the thinking was-

STEVE:

Yeah?

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JOANNA:

--that since the computer is Man of

the Year that that’s good for our

business but like I said I’m having

them removed from the building.

STEVE:

What I’d like you to do with them

is to take them, all 2600 copies,

and stack them on Kottke’s desk and

tell him Steve says, “Happy New

Year to you.”

JOANNA:

Okay.

STEVE:

I gave Michael Moritz full access,

the whole campus. Bandley, Apple

II, Lisa, I gave him Sculley,

Markkula, I gave him Woz, I gave

him everybody. Betrayal, thy name

is Michael Moritz and Bozo, thy

name is Daniel Kottke. What should

I call the person who thought it

would be a good idea to hand these

out?

JOANNA:

I’m not telling you who it was, it

was done without malice, it’s been

taken care of, you have a half-hour

and we have things to talk about.

STEVE:

Like what?

JOANNA:

Like a million in the first 90 days-

STEVE:

Joanna-

JOANNA:

Twenty thousand a month after that.

STEVE:

Look-

JOANNA:

I’m begging you-

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