Obama After Sneak Peek At Original Iphone If It Were Legal I Would Buy A Boatload Of Apple Stock This Thing Is Going To Be Really Big

From the upcoming book Believer, US President Barack Obama’s Chief campaign advisor David Axelrod gives a small tidbit on a meeting Obama had before he became president. He called it:

AAPL stock was selling at a split adjusted $12-14 a share in early 2007 so if he would have done quite well if it hadn’t been illegal.

Not everybody was impressed with the iPhone in its original form. Microsoft’s then CEO Steve Ballmer dismissed it in a famous rant after the launch:

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One person who did ‘get it’ immediately was Google’s Andy Rubin who shifted Android strategy completely (according to a book by Fred Vogelstein) after the launch.

Obama had a few other meetings with Jobs before his death including the famous ‘Silicon Valley Summit’ pictured above.

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