Apple CEO Tim Cook attacks Steve Jobs films as ‘opportunistic’

And now, we’re getting another. Danny Boyle is the director, Aaron Sorkin wrote the screenplay, and Michael Fassbender is Jobs, juggling his life as a tech visionary with that of a family man: not always successfully it seems. Critics are already talking about a possible Oscar for Michael Fassbender’s portrayal of Jobs, while noting that the portrait of the man is unsentimental and even unflattering.

However, despite the critical acclaim the new biopic has garnered, Apple boss Cook has made it clear he is not interested in checking it out because his late boss is often portrayed in an unflattering manner. He’s someone who you wanted to do your best work [for]. He invented things that I think other people could not. “He had this uncanny ability to see around the corner and describe a future – not an evolutionary future but a revolutionary future”. I miss every day.

Fassbender plays Apple’s very own megalomaniac, Steve Jobs, and is set through three distinctive time periods in his career.

I’ve actually seen two rough cuts. “We’d be looking at the most tectonic shift since…”

“The film-makers have done an award-winning job”. The acting was just so realistic.

In an op-ed on CNN.com in August, Fiorina compared herself to Steve Jobs, Walt Disney, Michael Bloomberg and Oprah – because they were all fired at least once. Woz officially left Apple in 1985. “That’s what’s supposed to be the best part of you“.

Tim Cook took over the reins of Apple in 2011 in the last few months before Job’s demise; before then, he worked with Steve Jobs as a senior executive for about 13 years.