--- title: The Steve Jobs Movie References a TIME Story: Read It Here description: A January 1983 magazine co-stars with Michael Fassbender in Aaron Sorkin's new movie canonical: https://time.com/4063996/steve-jobs-movie-time-magazine-profile/ author: Eliana Dockterman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-22T22:00:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:01:20.469Z article:section: History og:title: This is the TIME Story Referenced Throughout 'Steve Jobs' og:description: A January 1983 magazine co-stars with Michael Fassbender og:url: https://time.com/4063996/steve-jobs-movie-time-magazine-profile/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2c240c54b16f2a7c/6988661de20a87f63ca8d889/steve-jobs-movie04.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2100 og:image:height: 1181 og:image:alt: Film Title: Steve Jobs og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This is the TIME Story Referenced Throughout 'Steve Jobs' twitter:description: A January 1983 magazine co-stars with Michael Fassbender twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2c240c54b16f2a7c/6988661de20a87f63ca8d889/steve-jobs-movie04.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Read the TIME Magazine Story That Plays a Key Role in _Steve Jobs_ > Sponsored content. 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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription.  by [Eliana Dockterman](https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent Oct 22, 2015 10:00 PM UTC  Steve Jobs Michael Fassbender) with daughter (Lisa Brennan Makezie Moss). Steve Jobs Michael Fassbender) with daughter (Lisa Brennan Makezie Moss). François Duhamel—Universal Studios  by [Eliana Dockterman](https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent Oct 22, 2015 10:00 PM UTC **_Warning: Contains spoilers for_** **Steve Jobs** In the opening act of the new movie _Steve Jobs_, the titular character—a sort of fictionalized version of the real former Apple co-founder and CEO—rips open a box to find hundreds of issues of TIME magazine. Because this is an Aaron Sorkin film, the discovery sets Jobs off on a rant. He was almost named TIME’s Person of the Year for 1982, he claims, except that someone at Apple revealed he had a secret daughter, was denying paternity and paying her mother a mere $385 per month in child support, despite being worth hundreds of millions. TIME indeed picked a rather unconventional person of the year that year—or, rather, non-person of the year. The Computer scored the honor, with the issue’s letter the publisher noting that no single human “symbolized the past year more richly, or will be viewed by history as more significant, than a machine.” The magazine included several stories on why the computer was changing the world, including a profile of Jobs written by Jay Cocks. But Jobs didn’t make the cover, and the 1983 TIME snub goes on to play a pivotal role in the three-act film about Jobs. The real-life profile that so upsets the movie version of Jobs introduces him as the individual who has done the most to fuel the computer’s early-’80s rise to the “cultural ozone.” Jobs, then only 27, had just overseen Apple’s best year yet, during which it was valued at $1.7 billion and pulled in sales up to $538 million, bringing Jobs’ personal worth north of $210 million. “But past the money, and the hype, and the fairy-tale success, Jobs has been the prime advanceman for the computer revolution,” Cocks wrote. “With his smooth sales pitch and a blind faith that would have been the envy of the early Christian martyrs, it is Steven Jobs, more than anyone, who kicked open the door and let the personal computer move in.” Those words might seem like enough to make any computer executive happy, but not everything in the story was positive. Here are the relevant sections that make a difference in the movie: --- > “” --- Don’t feel too sorry for the Apple tycoon. He did grace the cover of TIME [eight times](http://content.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1977507%5F2098363,00.html): in a 1982 story on how he made Apple a sensation, a 1997 story covering the Apple-Microsoft deal, a 1999 story on Pixar, a 2002 story on the iMac, a 2005 story on the future of Apple, a 2007 cover on the World’s 100 most influential people, a 2010 story on the iPad launch and a 2011 story on his death. Still, Jobs never was named Person of the Year. **_See the full issue, here in the TIME Vault:_** [Machine of the Year](http://time.com/vault/issue/1983-01-03/page/1/) ### Check Out These Pictures of Michael Fassbender As Steve Jobs  Michael Fassbender portrays the pioneering founder of Apple in “Steve Jobs”, Universal Pictures/Universal Studios  Steve Jobs (Michael Fassbender) and Steve Wozniak (Seth Rogen). François Duhamel—Universal Studios  Steve Jobs Michael Fassbender) with daughter (Lisa Brennan Makezie Moss). François Duhamel—Universal Studios  From left to right: Andy Hertzfeld (Michael Stalberg), Steve Jobs (Michael Fassbender) and Joanna Hoffman (Kate Winslet). François Duhamel—Universal Studios  Michael Fassbender as Steve Jobs, preparing for a speech. François Duhamel—Universal Studios  Michael Fassbender portrays the pioneering founder of Apple. François Duhamel—Universal Studios  Chrisann Brennan (Katherine Waterson) with daughter Lisa Brennan (Makenzie Moss). François Duhamel—Universal Studios  John Sculley (Jeff Daniels) and Steve Jobs (Michael Fassbender). François Duhamel—Universal Studios  Michael Fassbender portrays Steve Jobs. 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