It might do more than help Apple strive towards its goals of ever thinner devices -- there's been unconfirmedrumors of an easy, orientation-independent design and faster speeds.
Now when people found out that he had been confirmed dead, of course, rumors started to fly--unconfirmed rumors, mind you--that Garang had been killed either by the government, the northern government in Khartoum, or by a bomb or by an opposition group.