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A lesson on taste from Steve Jobs

Over the weekend, your humble correspondent watched the Steve Jobs biopic Jobs.   Switching off an Android smartphone before a movie about Steve Jobs is an awkward, almost covert operation. You almost imagine being chased out of the local Cineplex by a bunch of single mouse button aficionados in black turtle necks baying for heathen […]
Andrew Sadauskas
Andrew Sadauskas

Over the weekend, your humble correspondent watched the Steve Jobs biopic Jobs.

 

Switching off an Android smartphone before a movie about Steve Jobs is an awkward, almost covert operation. You almost imagine being chased out of the local Cineplex by a bunch of single mouse button aficionados in black turtle necks baying for heathen blood – while brandishing minimalist white tablets and smartphones instead of pitchforks.

 

So is Old Taskmaster’s task of the day to order you to the cinema to watch this film?

 

Certainly, if you’re a hardcore Apple fan, this is a flick you should probably see – but then again you probably already have seen it five times already and are in the middle of torrenting it onto your second MacBook.

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