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Aaron Sorkin Blasts Tim Cook for Calling Steve Jobs Films 'Opportunistic'
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I like how the guy who has been here less time than I have had iOS 9 is going to sit here and question me. Lol. Cute.
Tim Cook calls anything remotely critical of Steve Jobs, opportunistic. He said it about the Alex Gibney doc, and the put it on iTunes for rent!? Never mind it was written by a guy Steve Jobs wanted to write for Pixar.
So, they're both in the wrong a bit here. First, Sorkin does not understand the complexities of technology manufacturing in the current landscape. It's not only about cost (how could you compete with all other manufacturers who are reaping the same benefits?) but also about trained labor. It simply isn't possible to produce a product such as the iPhone 6S or Samsung Galaxy S6 within the timeframe and scale that it needs to happen in the U.S. There aren't enough trained workers or even available and willing to be trained workers. Yes, things do need to change, but it's not going to happen overnight. Of all the technology manufacturers, Apple is actually moving the needle most when it comes to bringing manufacturing back to the U.S.
Cook is also being a bit deceiving. Remember, Apple is a business. It could paint the company in a bad light if people thought Steve Jobs wasn't a good person. He wasn't a bad person, but he definitely had flaws – as we all do. It seems like a business decision and a "company line" response whenever he or other Apple execs are asked about the media surrounding Jobs' life story. They all respond in a very similar manner, using some of the same phrasing.
Cook is also being a bit deceiving. Remember, Apple is a business. It could paint the company in a bad light if people thought Steve Jobs wasn't a good person. He wasn't a bad person, but he definitely had flaws – as we all do. It seems like a business decision and a "company line" response whenever he or other Apple execs are asked about the media surrounding Jobs' life story. They all respond in a very similar manner, using some of the same phrasing.
I hope people finally stop making movies on Abraham Lincoln. He was a revered man and movies continue to periodically come out. They went too far when two recent Lincoln vampire movies came out. The really dragged Lincoln's legacy through the mud to make money.
But they were fun movies to watch!
well do you?
Do you know him more than Tim Cook? I'm not the one saying I know Steve Jobs, you are. Prove it.
Good for Sorkin for saying that. I think some people forget how much of an ******* Steve Jobs was in the past at least.
Don't kid yourself. Apple's in the business of making money just like every other business. There's only one reason to farm manufacturing out the China and it's money. They only reason they give a crap about the working conditions over there is to make themselves look better.
Don't kid yourself. Apple's in the business of making money just like every other business. There's only one reason to farm manufacturing out the China and it's money. They only reason they give a crap about the working conditions over there is to make themselves look better.
None of these movies will ever be better than 'Pirates of Silicon Valley.' To really understand what was going on at that time you had to see it from both sides (Mac and IBM-PC/Windows). Jobs didn't exist in a vacuum of creation - there were other competing products and ideas out there.
That's like saying that if you shoot your neighbour's dog because it's barking loud at night, you shouldn't criticise someone for making fun of little people.
I hope this film wins Best Picture at the Oscars just to see people on this site lose their minds.
An Aaron Sorkin scripted film with an Academy Award winning director and an Academy Award nominated group of actors won't be better than a (albeit solid) TV movie.
Right.
It's obvious that Cook WHO DIDN'T ACTUALLY SEE THE MOVIE shouldn't voice his opinion about how he thinks it reflects Jobs.
It won't if its filled with lies and half-truths
The book was a thoroughly researched, largely chronological biography.
The film will use many elements from the film (which are largely based on reported facts and not proprietary to that book), but it's its own separate entity.
Please. That film is filled with exaggerations and dramatizations like every film that's not a documentary.
Sorkin said exactly what needed to be said about that hypocrite Apple CEO.
Many of Steve closes friends and relatives did not like the book.
Why would they like a movie based on the book?
And why make a movie so soon after his death?
Can they not let the man rest in peace for at least a decade?
by using lies? So expose a so called hypocrite by using lies. I guess that's your type of 'justice'
The film isn't a chronological life story. It's a portrait of 3 different periods of Jobs's life during 3 major product launches. It's actually going to be substantially different than the book.
If there's a good story to tell, it really doesn't matter how quickly after somebody's death in which it should be told.
cook is being self serving, cynical and hypocritical, money does that to people, no ceo of a company that size is a nice person, sorkin is just reacting but needs to get his facts right
the 0.17 usd/hour is wrong, the rates at foxconn (and pegatron) are much higher, but still low vs. average living costs in the area, and this is in a country where inflation is non-trivial
the poster above who thinks chinese people from the farm have freedon of movement is ignorant, there is no such freedom, rural people in particular face restrictions on moving to urban areas, in china they like to keep the peasants down on the farm
foxconn has had the spotlight on it and improved conditions, but that costs more, so apple has shifted some work to subcontractors who pay less and work people harder, such as pegatron
so you can see how apple is so nice to do business with, how it really cares about those poor foxconn workers by giving their jobs to pegatron, where workers get ground harder for less, great for the share price though
if you look at apple's labour costs as % of profit it's very clear it could make a lot of poor people happy, without increasing prices a single penny, and while still making industry leading margins
apple isn't a charity of course, it's there to maximise profit, like all large companies it squeezes the most it can get away with out of people, go too far and there's bad press, so it looks for the line, it's not nice of course, it's global business
and before the ranting starts, i'm not anti-apple, but some people here seem to think it's some kind of lovely, cuddly, supernice company that sheds happiness and joy, it's not
it's just another company that wants to pay as little cost, including tax, as it can, and sell to the market for as much as it can, which is why any reseller that tries real discounting suddenly finds it has no stock, or cannot get new products until long after release
apple is no better or worse than all the other companies who do the same, though perhaps it has the best pr and a lot more control of it's supply chain and sales channels
the 0.17 usd/hour is wrong, the rates at foxconn (and pegatron) are much higher, but still low vs. average living costs in the area, and this is in a country where inflation is non-trivial
the poster above who thinks chinese people from the farm have freedon of movement is ignorant, there is no such freedom, rural people in particular face restrictions on moving to urban areas, in china they like to keep the peasants down on the farm
foxconn has had the spotlight on it and improved conditions, but that costs more, so apple has shifted some work to subcontractors who pay less and work people harder, such as pegatron
so you can see how apple is so nice to do business with, how it really cares about those poor foxconn workers by giving their jobs to pegatron, where workers get ground harder for less, great for the share price though
if you look at apple's labour costs as % of profit it's very clear it could make a lot of poor people happy, without increasing prices a single penny, and while still making industry leading margins
apple isn't a charity of course, it's there to maximise profit, like all large companies it squeezes the most it can get away with out of people, go too far and there's bad press, so it looks for the line, it's not nice of course, it's global business
and before the ranting starts, i'm not anti-apple, but some people here seem to think it's some kind of lovely, cuddly, supernice company that sheds happiness and joy, it's not
it's just another company that wants to pay as little cost, including tax, as it can, and sell to the market for as much as it can, which is why any reseller that tries real discounting suddenly finds it has no stock, or cannot get new products until long after release
apple is no better or worse than all the other companies who do the same, though perhaps it has the best pr and a lot more control of it's supply chain and sales channels
Sure. And that's why Cook will be giving his entire estate to charity when he passes.
I don't think it's possible for him to rest since he is dead. As in NO MORE.