US government invented the iPhone, not Steve Jobs. Is that right?
Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone on June 1st 2007 and it revolutionised the mobile industry. Nearly a decade later, Nancy Pelosi, Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives, claimed on Thursday that the federal government invented the iPhone and not tech giant Apple or its former CEO, Steve Jobs. During her speech, Nancy went on to list different elements of the iPhone that various parts of the government had contributed to in certain ways. Holding up a smartphone she said, "In this smartphone, almost everything came from federal investments in research. GPS came from military, flatscreen, digital camera, digital data compression,voice recognition….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.." She want on to claim that though Steve Jobs did a good job designing and putting the iPhone together, the Federal research invented it. Nancy’s c