Sunday, March 13, 2011

Pirates of Silicon Valley Movie Review

It exposed the history and growth of personal computer industry. This movie is between Steve Jobs for Apple and Bill Gates for Microsoft, it illustrates the hardships and milestones of the two prominent companies in order to gain what they have today. The story started with IBM at the early 1980’s. The apple company which is founded by Steve Jobs and his friend ‘Waz’ started doing computers in a garage and reap the idea of graphical user interface from Xerox, a company who developed mouse and standard interface styles that we know today. Xerox let apple look everything they had and naturally, Apple stole everything they could.

On the other hand, Bill Gates formed his company called Microsoft who makes software like operating systems. IBM and Microsoft agreed that the new operating system called DOS will be used in all IBM machines, with this started the Microsoft dynasty. Apple and Microsoft became great rivals on the industry. The movie represents how technology evolves between friendships, Gates and Jobs who are friends became rivals because of their ambitions for their companies. But besides all of this, we should be still grateful for their inventions which we enjoy today.

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