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| News just in! Apple's Leopard to be officially launched in Australia's Sydney Opera House in October. | | Date Created: 18 Apr, 2007, 07:12 AM |
 In news just in from unidentified sources in Cupertino, Apple CEO Steve Jobs is planning to visit Australia for the first time to officially launch Leopard at the Sydney Opera House in October.
"I can't think of a better place to launch Leopard", Jobs was said to have commented to Steven Levy of Newsweek during a yet-to-be published interview. "The Opera House is comprised of a half-dozen self-cleaning shells, which serves to remind us of Leopard's Unix underpinnings."
But Jobs was also said to have wanted the Opera House because it was a reminder of what happens when a pure and original design is interfered with by politicians and various nay-sayers who think they know better than the architect himself.
"(Opera House designer) Jørn Utzon's career suffered terribly as a result of all the innuendo and interference about his design. It was the equivalent of architectural FUD. But instead, Utzon predated Apple's "Think Different" advertising campaign and we really ought to have included him in it with the likes of Picasso and John Lennon. |
 In a vague self-reference, Jobs apparently stated, "Who knows what else he could have achieved if only all the design wannebees had just left him alone."
Pressed hard by Levy, Jobs eventually conceded that one of his main reasons for launching Leopard in October in Australia was that it meant Apple stuck to its original promise of a Spring 2007 launch.
"Is it my fault everyone thought I meant the Northern Spring, and not that celebrated in the Southern Hemisphere?" Jobs was heard to express to a wide-eyed Levy. |
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