I think the ending aged like milk, i.e.: "Steve Jobs capitulating to Microsoft".

First of all, it's simply a mischaracterization, and second, today we interpret that moment very differently to the way it's portrayed in that movie. Steve Jobs turned Apple around spectacularly and went on to create the company with the highest market capitalization in the world, surpassing even Microsoft for many years.

Other than the ending, that documentary does a better job representing Steve Jobs' life than recent biographical movies.

There should be a documentary that covers Steve's life in his NeXT years.

I think that is a fair criticism in retrospect. I also think that the ending was exactly on point with where people thought Apple and Microsoft were going at the time the movie was filmed and released (1999 release).

I would love to see a documentary about NeXT. I feel like there is a missing component in the YouTube technology discussion which is actual documentary films. If you go and look up NeXT computers, there are people talking about something they bought on ebay, there is old footage of steve jobs pitching next computers, but there isn't any sort of scripted narrative documentary told via old footage, current interviews, etc. This is true basically across the space of technology videos on youtube. It's not limited to NeXT. Ironically, I made something like this for scientific models. Maybe if I want this, I should hunt down people willing to tell stories on camera and make it myself. lol.

> there isn't any sort of scripted narrative documentary told via old footage, current interviews, etc.

I suspect this is because of the economics of youtube. I don't think there is enough money in it for niche documentaries to be profitable. Either it's quick cheap solo stuff, or it's big documentaries but with a nice broad appeal (e.g. Vice or food stuff)

Yeah I thought about that. I never thought about monetizing it because you could take lots of found footage from youtube anyways and then build a narrative from additional interviews. I guess it requires so much effort that it ends up becoming a job though.

Such a good movie. I have a copy on my machine, and I'm sometimes sad that it's a 4x3 analog cable TV broadcast before HD. On the other hand, the fact that it's so good despite the constraints speaks to how well made it was.

The Pirates of Silicon valley DVD was the first item I've ever bought on Amazon. This was circa 2001, I was 15 and living in Europe. Ordering something from the US over the internet and having it delivered 2 weeks later was very exciting back then. I also had to 'hack' my DVD player to circumvent the region lock.

Anyway, my point being is: there is a 572p 16:9 version available on DVD.

I wonder if it's a real 16:9 version or if they just cropped the top and bottom off the 4:3 cut.

Some early DVDs had a lot of love put into their production, some others did pretty heinous things to the source material though.

Perhaps we could remaster it using machine learning?