No wonder it bombed at he box office

Rating: 4/10 (11 September 2016)

To be honest it does not surprise me this film bombed.
I worked for IBM in the UK during the 1980s and 1990s, developing software for the PC, so I lived through the whole IBM / Microsoft / Apple saga from that period. I have also read a number of books on Jobs (including the one this film was based on).
And Steve Jobs did make some huge mistakes during that 80s/90s period (after all he was sacked from Apple, the company he formed).
However many of today's film goers (the ones in their 20s and 30s who make up the bulk of today's cinema audiences) have grown up with their ipods, ipads, iphones and iTunes, and to them Steve Jobs is almost a hero. They don't want to see a film which is pretty much a hatchet job on the man.
It covers three major project launches (two of which failed), the original Apple Macintosh (which failed), his Next computers (which failed), and the original iMac, which could be considered a success (and the start of his second great phase at Apple) though any iMac success is not actually mentioned in the film).
It also shows him as a terrible father, a pretty terrible boss, a terrible workmate, and a pretty terrible "friend" (even to those like "Andy" and Woz who stuck by him).
He rarely smiles in the film and he hardly shows anyone any affection (even when his daughter cuddles him, much to his shock and surprise).
Also because each of the three sections cover just the one "launch" day (and they are almost filmed in "real time") they are very intense. Watching this film is quite hard work, it left me exhausted at the end.
I should also say that because I have a good knowledge of computers, and know the Steve Jobs "story" already, I could follow pretty much everything that was going on, but for those who were not very computer literate or did not know most of the story, then much of it must have seemed like a foreign language.
So overall I have no objection to showing the "bad" side of Steve jobs, as long as you show the good side, maybe reduce the lengths of the first three sections and have a "positive" fourth section showing the launch of the iphone or ipad, or a mention of Pixar (or all 3).
Something to bolster up the very negative view of the man in the first three sections by a more positive view in a new fourth section.
As it stands the film is just a three act "hatchet job" with hardly a redeeming feature.