Steve Jobs: One Last Thing

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Steve Jobs was

a genius of the modern age.

He gave us tools

to change our lives

and the way we communicate.

Here comes a device

that comes with no manual,

and everybody knows

how to use it... amazing.

They weren't just hits in

the sense that they sold well,

but they actually changed

the whole nature of technology

and caused everyone else

to follow them.

This intimate portrait

is a revealing insight

into Steve Jobs' life...

Andy Warhol gets

down on his hands and knees,

Steve showing him

how to use the mouse.

His career...

He shook up

a whole industry.

His character...

Steve loved

those creative ideas.

His faults...

Steve ultimately

betrayed everyone.

His artistry...

Just the smooth

lines of it.

And his achievements...

He is going to inspire

a whole new generation.

By the people

who knew him best.

I'd give a lot to have

Steve's taste.

If he needed You,

he was your best friend,

and he would seduce you.

When I was having a hard time,

he would be on the phone,

he'd drive up

from silicon valley,

take me out for dinner,

hang out and take walks with me.

He turned on me,

total street bully,

in my face, screa...

We were... and I went crazy.

I'd never been there.

I don't ever want

to be there again.

How much fun we had... ohh...

How much fun we had in those

days doing things together,

you know, but you lose it,

you can't ever go back,

and just to have those conversations

that make us both smile.

Through their eyes,

we reveal what made him

the man who always gave us...

Now there's

one more thing.

Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs

"One Last Thing"

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Steven Paul Jobs died

on October 5, 2011,

at the age of 56,

a life cut short

in its creative prime by cancer.

His death was

not a surprise,

and yet its impact

reverberated around the world.

The news had spread,

and the tributes were created

on the new iDevices that

his visionary genius had made.

His is a success story that

could only have happened

in the U.S.A.

I don't mean to say

that there aren't geniuses

and world-changing people

everywhere... there are...

But I think in Jobs' case,

the particular path

of his career,

this could only have

happened in America.

Steve Jobs'

world-class salesmanship found

a global audience in his famous

Apple product presentations.

He always had

"one more thing" to announce.

Everyone thinks, "wow.

That's... that's so much,"

and, "well, we got

one more thing,"

and then you put

your biggest thing at the end

because it'll tip it.

It's good, uh... it's

good showmanship really.

Tragically

that "one more thing"

has now become "one last thing."

The news that Steve Jobs

had finally logged out

made headlines everywhere.

This man really had

changed the world.

When you grow up,

you tend to get told

that the world

is the way it is,

and your... your life is just to

live your life inside the world,

try not to bash

into the walls too much,

try to have

a nice family life,

have fun, save a little money.

In this exclusive,

never before seen interview,

Steve Jobs gave a rare glimpse

of his vision of the world.

That's a very limited life.

Life can be much broader

once you discover

one simple fact,

and that is everything

around you that you call life

was made up by people that

were no smarter than you,

and you can change it,

you can influence it,

you can build your own things

that other people can use.

Um, once you learn that,

you'll never be the same again.

In the Los altos suburb

of San Francisco, California,

just about everybody

was an engineer

or worked in electronics

a childhood spent here

in the future silicon valley

was the first key lucky break

in Steve Jobs' young life.

His closest childhood

friend was Bill Fernandez.

In about eighth grade,

halfway through,

this new guy came

into the school,

who was Steve Jobs,

and we were both introverted,

intellectual,

kind of socially inept,

and we gravitated

towards each other.

The two boys shared

the same hobby.

We started taking long walks

and talking

about the meaning of life

and what is this all about,

and after a while

we started doing...

In addition to walking

and talking...

Doing electronics

projects together.

Fernandez also knew

another electronics geek,

his neighbors' son

Steve Wozniak,

universally known as Woz.

So one day, Steve Jobs bicycled

over to hang out with me

and do electronics projects

in the garage,

and out in front was Wozniak

washing his car.

So I thought to myself,

"ok. This Steve is

"an electronics buddy,

he's an electronics buddy.

They'd probably like to

meet each other."

Fernandez

had no idea at the time

that the meeting

between his two friends

would change our world.

Jobs and Woz were soon to

start a business together.

Its name was Apple.

If Woz and Jobs

had never met,

there never would have been

an Apple computer.

There would have

been computers,

and there would have

been personal computers,

but we probably wouldn't have

the kind of

wonderful empowering

things that people

fall into if Woz

and Jobs hadn't met.

This neighborhood

we grew up in had

a lot of

lockheed engineers in it,

and I would go up

and down the street

to the various dads

on the street

and get mentored

in electronics,

and Steve Wozniak's father

was one of the people

who mentored me.

As Jobs and I were

walking over,

I noticed Woz out

washing his car,

and I said, "hey, Woz.

Um, come over and meet Steve."

So, "Steve, meet Steve."

And this is where

it happened,

basically right here.

Woz and Jobs became

inseparable friends,

but their first venture was not

a computer.

The pair developed

an electronics Kit

mimicking telephone

router codes

to make free calls

around the world.

You know, when you make

a long distance phone call

in the background you hear,

"do do do do do"?

Those are the telephone computers

actually signing each other,

sending information to each

other to set up your call.

And there used to be

a way to fool

the entire telephone system

into thinking

you were

a telephone computer.

You could, you know,

call from a pay phone,

go to white plains, new York,

take a satellite to Europe

take a cable to turkey,

um, come back to Los Angeles,

and you'd go around the world

3 or 4 times and call

the payphone next door,

shout in the phone,

and be about 30 seconds, it

would come out the other phone.

The pair quickly moved

on from phone-jacking for fun

to creating computers,

building the prototype

of the very first Apple.

It's a fond memory

for Steve Wozniak.

He was always thinking

about certain technology,

the early products that got

developed, the building parts,

what those might lead to

in our future,

and he was a always pushing

me as an engineer...

"Could you possibly

add this someday,

could you possibly add

that someday?"

Yes, yes, yes, I could,"

thinking, "no.

It's way, way off,"

but eventually we all did.

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