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Nancy Pelosi: The U.S. government invented the iPhone
- noobermin 10y agoProbably poor phrasing, but the government did invest into GPS, the internet, etc. I'd read this more as a justification for state sponsored research than Pelosi claiming the iPhone was some bureaucrat's idea.
- rubyfan 10y agoYeah same, but the language and rhetoric used by her and President Obama discounts the efforts and ingenuity of the private sector in favor of their narrative on the role of government - which is likely not by accident. This is a classic debate and we know where all parties stand. It comes down to how you view property rights that probably puts you on one side or the other of this debate.
- dekhn 10y agoSure, the government invested in and helped create a number of key technologies. But Jobs (and others) innovated and integrated those technologies into products that sell millions or billions of units. It seems unlikely the government itself would ever had created a compact phone designed for consumers.