Nina Strochlic
On
Friday, wrists around the world will welcome the most anticipated
gadget since the iPad came to our fingertips five years ago. The Apple Watch
has stirred breathless speculation, imitation, and excitement long
before its reveal last September. But the date chosen for its release
has caused a too-bizarre-to-be-true historic collision that Apple’s
founder would likely never have allowed to happen.
One hundred years after Steve Jobs’s adoptive family escaped the Armenian Genocide,
the company he created is releasing its biggest new product on the
centennial of a mass killing that left 1.5 million dead at the hands of
the Ottoman Empire.
