“Editorials in The Washington Post and The New York Times today about Donald Trump’s black-on-white-homicide Tweet got me wondering whether he’d ever tweeted about Apple,” Philip Elmer-DeWitt writes for Fortune. “Turns out he had.”
“Two years before he announced he was running for president, Trump released a small tweetstorm about the iPhone,” P.E.D. reports. “It actually began on Facebook, in April 29, 2013, when he shared with his friends and followers that he was long Apple.”
P.E.D. reports, “He picked up the theme on Twitter, the platform he would later adopt as his favorite way to speak directly to, and get feedback from, the American voter.”
I have a lot of @Apple stock— and I miss Steve Jobs. Tim Cook must immediately increase the size of the screen… http://t.co/Hr29Kd2fCk
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 29, 2013
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MacDailyNews Note: With the 4.7-inch iPhone 6 and the flagship 5.5-inch iPhone 6 Plus, Apple belatedly released larger sized iPhones on September 19, 2014 (and all-time sales records ensued).
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