The Apple computer company founder, Steve Jobs, was adopted as a baby. In this film, Steve Jobs is portrayed by Michael Fassbender and is a based on the book Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson. The film tells the story of Steve Jobs' life and development of the portable computer around the launch of 3 products - the Apple Macintosh in 1984, the black cube by NeXT in 1988, and the iMac in 1998.