Sunday 1 November 2020

No, Sean Connery did not write a mean letter to Steve Jobs

Apple CEO Steve Jobs Delivers Opening Keynote At Macworld 2005 The late Steve Jobs | Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

A fake letter from Sean Connery to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is making the rounds on social media following the actor’s death on Saturday. Just to reiterate: it’s fake, the product of humor site Scoopertino, which posts satirical articles about Apple and goings-on at its Cupertino (get it that’s the name) headquarters.

The typewritten letter dated 1998 purports to show Connery’s outrage over Jobs asking him to appear in an Apple commercial. “I do not sell my soul for Apple or any other company. I have no interest in ‘changing the world’ as you suggest,” it states. “You are a computer salesman, I am fucking JAMES BOND!”

But the internet loves things that are too good to be true, and Sunday morning, the “letter” was circulating on...

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source https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/1/21544566/sean-connery-fake-mean-letter-steve-jobs-apple

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