Time capsule buried by Steve Jobs in 1983 finally found
A time capsule buried by Apple founder Steve Jobs 20 years ago has been found at last. In 1983, young Jobs was attending a conference in Aspen when he and the group decided to bury a capsule as a joke.
The tube that was filled with various things - ranging from the then-new apple mouse to a six-pack of beer.
There
was a little problem, however, because those involved forgot where the
capsule was buried. The final discovery was made by the crew from the
National Geographic Channel's reality show called Diggers.
The
most interesting object found inside the capsule would definitely be
the 'Lisa' mouse placed in the tube by the hands of a then-28-year-old
Steve Jobs.
The
Lisa Mouse, which was called so after Job’s daughter, was one of the
first commercial computer mice soled publicly that made it a rarity at
the time.
The
Aspen Historical Society is going to help the show creators make a
catalogue of the tube's contents - but no word yet whether or not the
Diggers opened one of the Boddington’s Ale six-pack that was left inside
for the lucky ones who found the tube.
September
10, 2013 was long-awaited by Apple fans: it was the day when their
beloved gadget-maker launched new iPhones – two at once for the first
time in its history – iPhone 5S, the flagship successor to the 5, and
iPhone 5C, a cheaper plastic version targeting emerging markets.
The
gadgets were available for pre-orders last Friday, and will be on sale
Sept 20, so some people already start lining up to get the thing.
As
of today, several unlocked models of the device are now experiencing
slight shortages with an expected delivery date of September 25 in the
US.
However,
some experts claim that Apple-lovers are disappointed with the new
phones, saying that Apple is not the same without its founder Steve
Jobs. And they are not the only one unhappy…
Those
who saw the new Steve Jobs biopic with Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs and
Josh Gad as Steve Wozniak also describe the movie as disappointing.
Some
reviewers claim the film is the story of how the Apple company was
founded, rather than the story of the man who built it and while Kutcher
had the physical attributes, he didn't have enough depth to really get
to the core of Jobs.
The
film has quite moderate reviews and a 25 percent Rotten Tomatoes score.
Open Road Films predicted that it would make $8 to $9 million over its
first weekend, but according to Box Office Mojo, the movie brought in
just $6.7 million.
Steve
Jobs and Steve Wozniak were two perfect collaborators, whose
engineering and marketing genius helped them create one of the world’s
most admired tech companies. Though the two parted ways long before
Jobs’ death in 2011, it’s Wozniak that perhaps knew Steve Jobs best.
Wozniak really wanted to see movie. He did. And he hated it.
At first, Wozniak hated the script, calling it a flat piece of garbage.
He
even had declined to act as a consultant to the movie after reading the
script and saying he was "abhorred" by it and claiming that "there were
a lot of things wrong."
Speaking
on Bloomberg TV, Wozniak blamed Ashton Kutcher's reverence for Jobs,
saying that Kutcher appeared to have had something of a producer as well
as acting role:
Ashton
has too much of this ‘fan’ thing, like a cult leader … He could not see
that [Jobs] had a lot of flaws in knowing how to run things and execute
and make products that were worthwhile at his time there. ...Jobs
failed with the Apple III, he failed with the Lisa, he failed with the
Macintosh. People don’t know from the movie how deeply the Macintosh
failed, how deeply our stock slide down, how we had to regroup quickly
and build a Macintosh market over three years."
Two of Apple's early employees, Daniel Kottke and Bill Fernandez, had also mentioned a series of inaccuracies in the movie.
Kutcher,
however, responded to Wozniak’s criticism: “His biggest criticism,
ultimately, that’d I’ve heard, is he wanted it to be more representative
of his contribution to Apple. And in all fairness the movie is called
Jobs.”
In
Russia, where Apple products are extremely popular and the pre-order
list for all its new gadgets is mile-long, the new movie is highly
anticipated as well as new phones and all the three have good chances to
be warmly welcomed.
The film will be in Russian theaters on Thursday, September 19.
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