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DEATH STAR “If Ive has learned to cope with pre-launch media fuss—snatched photographs of components, mockups of imagined goods—Abrams seems to relish it. As the event in California unfolded, he posted an image to Twitter using the hashtag #AppleWatch: a handwritten card (“Why do I suddenly have this desperate need to own a watch? Damn you, Apple!!!”) lying on a polished surface that seemed to offer the first glimpse of the interior of a new Death Star.” 1what is the meaning of "Death Star", {DESPERATE NEED}? 2THANKS Jonathan Ive and the Future of Apple - The New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/23/shape-things-come via Instapaper
Mar 29, 2015 3:36 PM
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The "death star" is an allusion to the Star Wars films, and in the film was the instrument by which the evil empire tried to control the galaxy.
March 29, 2015
A Death Star was a moon-sized Imperial military battlestation armed with a planet-destroying superlaser. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Death_Star
March 29, 2015
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