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"It&amp;#8217;s no accident that Eve, Wall-E&amp;#8217;s sleek, pod-like love interest in the forthcoming Disney/Pixar animated feature film by the same name, looks like something out of Apple&amp;#8217;s \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAAPL\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t design department.\nWriting in the current issue of Fortune, Richard Siklos reports that Jonathan Ive, head of Apple&amp;#8217;s design department and the man responsible for the iMac, iPod and iPhone, had a hand in creating the robot.\nIn the piece, director Andrew Stanton tells Siklos:\n&amp;#8220;I wanted Eve to be high-end technology &amp;#8212; no expense spared &amp;#8212; and I wanted it to be seamless and for the technology to be sort of hidden and subcutaneous. The more I started describing it, the more I realized I was pretty much describing the Apple playbook for design.&amp;#8221; (link)\nAccording to Siklos, a call from Stanton to Steve Jobs in 2005 resulted in Ive spending a day at Pixar consulting on the Eve prototype. Siklos writes:\n&amp;#8220;Stanton said that it was a &amp;#8216;lovefest&amp;#8217; with Ive, but that the notoriously tight-lipped design wizard offered few specific modifications. &amp;#8216;Apple is so proprietary and so secretive that he couldn&amp;#8217;t even really allude to where the future of technology was going,&amp;#8217; says Stanton. &amp;#8216;The most he could do is nod his head to the things we said we wanted to do.&amp;#8217; (Through a spokesman, Ive declined to comment.)&amp;#8221; (link)\nDisney \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDIS\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t bought Pixar in 2006 in a deal that made Jobs Disney&amp;#8217;s largest individual shareholder.\nStanton, who directed Finding Nemo, says he&amp;#8217;s been kicking around the idea for Wall-E for years, even before Toy Story was made. He has summarized it most succinctly like this: &amp;#8220;What if mankind evacuated Earth and forgot to turn off the last remaining robot?&amp;#8221;\nThe movie opens June 27, which is the day the smart money is betting that the 3G iPhone goes on sale.\nYou can read Siklos&amp;#8217; piece at Fortune.com here."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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