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In the animation category, Wall-E won an Oscar and Steve Jobs was one of the people thanked. Anyone knows how Apple was involved in this film?
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Steve Jobs was thanked at the Oscars
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Steve Jobs started Pixar didn't he?
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yes and wall e was a disney film
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I believed he owned Pixar, which was purchased by Disney and this is why he is Disney's largest shareholder.
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I was going to say that he could have helped with the animation.
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I'm going to assume with the position that Jobs has within Disney and the, what I assume to be large control over the Pixar division (if such a thing exists), that Macs were used throughout.
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Also, when WALL-E recharged himself, he sounded the chime you hear when you turn your Mac on. Maybe they were really grateful for having permission to do that? 
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Eve .. the white robot. Was basically designed by Steve Jobs... That might be the reason..
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In 1986, Steve Jobs bought Industrial Light & Sound from Lucasfilm. He then, along with it's animators founded Pixar. They used Jobs other project, NeXTSTEP, which was handed to Apple and turned into OS X.
In short, Steve Jobs saved animation and The Disney corperation and everyone is grateful for it.
In short, Steve Jobs saved animation and The Disney corperation and everyone is grateful for it.
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There is a nice documentary about Pixar that i would suggest you to watch, The Pixar Story (if you click Netflix gives me nothing). You should watch.
Also, EVE was designed by Jonathan Ive, not Jobs.
Also, EVE was designed by Jonathan Ive, not Jobs.
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