The stories have been collected in an O'Reilly book, Revolution in the Valley, published in December 2004. [7], Hertzfeld and his wife live in Palo Alto, California. In 1978, he bought an Apple II computer and soon began developing software for it. ", "Thesps click with Steve 'Jobs' indie: Kevin Dunn, Elden Henson, others join biopic", "Aaron Sorkin doesn't want people calling the Steve Jobs biopic a biopic", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andy_Hertzfeld&oldid=989631731, Scientists from the San Francisco Bay Area, University of California, Berkeley alumni, BLP articles lacking sources from January 2016, Wikipedia articles with CANTIC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 20 November 2020, at 03:07. While I think the facts of Jobs’ life are intriguing enough on their own, I also don’t have a problem with Aaron Sorkin aiming for a more impressionistic portrayal of events — so long as what comes out of it feels like a genuine portrayal of all involved. 1978 kaufte er einen Apple II Computer und begann bald darauf, Software zu entwickeln. Andy Hertzfeld Relationship to Steve Colleague Short Bio. For that reason, Hertzfeld is one of the characters portrayed in the new Aaron Sorkin Steve Jobs movie, as well as someone who got to see an early unfinished cut of the film. [11] He retired from Google in July 2013. With the first Macintosh, Hertzfeld wrote an icon editor and font editor so that Susan Kare could design the symbols used in the operating system.[3]. Working for Bud Tribble alongside Bill Atkinson and Burrell Smith, Hertzfeld became a primary software architect of the Macintosh Operating System, which was considered revolutionary in its use of the graphical user interface (GUI) where Jef Raskin also made contributions. Basically, he convinced me it was not a documentary, so veracity is secondary to artistic considerations, and ‘it’s a painting, not a photograph. He is also recognized as the co-founder of three companies – Radius, General Magic, and Eazel. [4][5] After a shakeup in the Apple II team and at Hertzfeld's request, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs added him to the nearly two-year-old Macintosh team in February 1981. [15] Hertzfeld stated "almost nothing in it is like it really happened" about the Steve Jobs film, but ultimately said the film wasn't aiming for realism. Next to Steve Jobs, Andy Hertzfeld is the name I most associate with the original Macintosh project. Hertzfeld's business card at Apple listed his title as Software Wizard. 19 questions you might be asking after seeing 'Steve Jobs' - CNET In the early 1980s, he invited his high school friend, artist Susan Kare, to join Apple in order to help design what would become standard Macintosh icons. Andy Hertzfeld: Date: February 1981: Characters: Steve Jobs, Bud Tribble: Topics: Management, Personality, Reality Distortion: Summary: Bud defines Steve's unique talent: I officially started on the Mac project on a Thursday afternoon, and Bud Tribble, my new manager and the only other software person on the project, was out of town. A self-titled 'software wizard', Hertzfeld played a critical role in the designing of the Mac OS and especially the Finder. He went on to write for Call A.P.P.L.E. Er wurde bei Apple 1979 als Systemprogrammierer angestellt und entwickelte den Silentype-Drucker und die erste 80-Zeichen-Karte für den Apple II. [12], As of October 2018, he is an investor of the startup Spatial. '”, Despite this, Hertzfeld describes Steve Jobs as, “a fine movie, brilliantly written and performed and full of humor and feeling,” although he reiterates that it, “deviates from reality everywhere” and is “almost nothing in it is like it really happened.”, “[U]ltimately that doesn’t matter that much. Leave your comments below. Andrew Jay Hertzfeld (born April 6, 1953) is an American software engineer and innovator who was a member of the original Apple Macintosh development team during the 1980s. In 2002, he helped Mitch Kapor promote open source software with the Open Source Applications Foundation. ", "Inside Google+ — How the Search Giant Plans to Go Social", "Listen to Andy Hertzfeld on Steve Jobs movie, General Magic, and his time at Google", "Video conferencing sucks. Hertzfeld worked at Google from 2005 to 2013, where in 2011 he was the key designer of the Circles user interface in Google+. In August 2005, Hertzfeld joined Google. [9][10] He also worked on Picasa, and Gmail's profile image selector. He was later played by actor Michael Stuhlbarg in the 2015 film Steve Jobs. Since leaving Apple in 1984, Hertzfeld has co-founded three new companies – Radius (1986), General Magic (1990), and Eazel (1999). By Luke Dormehl • 6:32 am, October 2, 2015. In early 2004, he started folklore.org, a Web site devoted to collective storytelling that contains dozens of anecdotes about the development of the original Macintosh. After graduating from Brown University with a computer science degree in 1975, Hertzfeld attended graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley. With "Revolution in the Valley" making its paperback debut and the work of Steve Jobs fresh in people's minds, we checked in with Andy Hertzfeld to discuss the legacy of the first Macintosh. 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