A Well Made and Acted, If At Times Painfully Pandering Biopic

Rating: 8/10 (5 October 2015)

While Boyle and the phenomenal cast have done an excellent job as would be expected, the recent surge in mindless Macintosh support is a bit of a worrying trend world wide. The reason that Steve Jobs is an important figure in American history is not only for his most lucrative company in history's selection of widely known moderate quality, maximum priced products. It was that he set into motion the most destructive economic devolution in the modern age.
When Steve Jobs revitalized some old 1980s touch screen tech with a modern twist and called it an iPhone, it not only sent his then shakily rejoined company's stock skyrocketing, it sent the corporate community into the darkest depths of inhumanely dividend-driven depravity. With the "Corporate Rights Movement"forcing an incorporated business to legally be considered a human being with similar rights, some of the most counter-productive, narcissistically psychopathic business practices since the Pinkertons (who still operate today) during the Industrial Revolution have occurred.
Where Wal-Mart and the Walton family got rich and famous on the "Made in America" campaign, nearly 90% of their products are manufactured by practically enslaved children in poor foreign nations with next to no basic human rights or labor laws today. Microsoft developed a patent/monopoly on the entire field of "Software" so they get endlessly paid for any newfound virtual program. Apple products that sell for thousands of dollars and function worse than much cheaper Windows computers are in bidding wars with desperate Chinese factories to be assembled and shipped for less than a cent per phone at times.
Then, as the corporations absorb billions in global profit, they attribute next to none of it back into their country of origin by keeping their massively excessive earnings in dozens of foreign nations with lower income taxes. Meanwhile, as they pay next to no taxes in the States to begin with, they have "lobbied (bribed)" our U.S. Congressmen to allow them to give them limitless "campaign donations" so that they increase taxes on taxpayers and decrease taxes on the super rich corporate CEOs. Even those CEOs who inherited their money from their parents, went bankrupt and were reimbursed by the taxpayers multiple times, like "super rich, best jobs president" Donald Trump.
Then they distract the public by forcing bi-partisan only mentality with no room for situational nuance or compromise to either absolutely love, or unwaveringly loath one company or another making "Corporation fanboys" needlessly angry and those they fight over very rich. "PC vs. Mac," "Microsoft vs. Sony," "Republican vs. Democrat,""Lib Dem vs. Torrie," "White vs. Black," "Male vs. Female," "Straight vs. Gay," "Hate vs. Love," "War vs. Peace." In the end, no one gets anything done, everyone's angry, and the only people who have any health wealth and happiness are those who screwed everyone else.
Technology is often very good, but nothing is any good to anyone unless you have factually documented, clearly observable evidence-backed knowledge of how it was made and whether or not it was humanely manufactured and distributed. Think for yourselves, don't let the ads think for you, everything has good and bad, nothing is worthless and nothing is flawless, life isn't all or nothing, people are just more complicated than that, it's why the world is so beautiful.