Who invented the iPhone?
The U.S. federal government did – according to U.S. House of Representatives Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is statements that echoed Barack Obama’s 2012 comments, “If you’ve got a business. you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”
“‘Anybody here have a smartphone?’ Pelosi asked an audience at a Democratic National Convention Platform hearing in Washington, D.C.,” Aaron Kliegman reports for The Washington Free Beacon. “Pelosi then held up an iPhone for everyone to see, telling those in the room, ‘In this smartphone, almost everything came from federal investments in research.'”
“She then listed elements of the iPhone that various parts of the government have contributed to in certain ways,” Kliegman reports. “‘The list goes on and on. If you want to learn more, look at the Association for the Advancement of Science in America, and they have the full list,’ Pelosi said. ‘They say Steve Jobs did a good idea designing it and putting it together. Federal research invented it.'”
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MacDailyNews Take: Lay off the peyote, Nance.