Aaron Sorkin Apologizes for Blasting Tim Cook's 'Opportunistic' Comment

Tim Cook probably delayed his 6S order.

Maybe I'm too optimistic, but I always take a moment to tell anyone thank you when they walk back themselves in an argument or disagreement. I wish I saw it happen more often rather than watch people get entrenched once they've voiced an initial opinion.

Maybe I'm too optimistic, but I always take a moment to tell anyone thank you when they walk back themselves in an argument or disagreement. I wish I saw it happen more often rather than watch people get entrenched once they've voiced an initial opinion.

Very true. Although what he did was walk back Tim's comment as well as his own, as if they were equivalent. But one comment was a very casual (and reasonable) opinion, about multiple for-profit movies, from someone whose friend died a couple years ago. The other was a quite blatant lie about a matter of factual record, and a very direct and UNreasonable attack against a man (and company) who has in fact done far more than the competition to keep children out of the workforce and get China to treat workers more fairly--while openly and publicly documenting the problems and the progress. And the apology failed to correct that lie, further cementing the damage when many believe it.

Damn, he walked that back quick. I guess he was afraid the Apple faithful wouldn't turn out for the movie as a result of what he said.

Just waiting for Taylor Swift to chime in on this.

That’s not an apology, that’s an attempt at damage control and a spin to make him look better. He’s still saying that “both went a little too far”, i.e. downplaying the fault in his actions while still discrediting Cook. It makes the apology worthless, but he will be remembered as the one who openly apologised.

Cook was entitled to his opinion and I wholeheartedly agree with him. It would piss me off as well.

Given the context of Cook's original comments, I'm pretty sure he was referring mostly to the "other" Steve Jobs movie (Steve Jobs: Man in the Machine). Colbert kind of asked him about both, but I think Tim was using his stock answer that may not apply quite as much to Sorkin's movie.

guess the movie studio had a word with him ;)

Me too, and how Tim reconciles his "not the Steve I knew" attitude with the proven fact that Jobs denied paternity to Lisa for years. IMO someone who denies his own daughter is a total peice of sh*t. Maybe you have to be a parent to understand...

There is no doubt he was a real messed up nasty piece of work early in his life. His frantic quests for enlightenment bore witness to that. But as someone who was a completely different person myself in my youth, I'd hate to be depicted as frozen in time, with no acknowledgement of the real personal growth I attained later in life. If you were to interview the people who knew me well only from high school to age 30, you'd get a very incomplete and inaccurate picture of who I am as a whole person over the course of my life. And I can say a great many of my friends would also find that true of themselves and their lives.

I'll give Steve Jobs the benefit of a doubt that something similar happened to him. So much focus has been given to Lisa because it's sensationalistic. What do we know of the kind of father he was to his other children in a more stable relationship after he matured? And Lisa did eventually have a relationship with her father.

As for Sorkin, Tim did not specifically name any one movie and certainly did not name Sorkin. He spoke in general terms and could have been referring to any number of films. He also issued the disclaimer that he hadn't seen any of them and mainly objected to the idea of such films. Sorkin went too far issuing such a personalized baseless response and would have given Steve a run for his money in terms of being hotheaded.

It might be time to have a movie made about Sorkin! I bet it would be quite colorful.

Good man. He had every right to feel… annoyed by Cook's attitude, but the hyperbole was a little over the line. (They don't employ children… knowingly… and don't pay nearly that badly.)