Obama predicted the iPhone's triumph after meeting Steve Jobs in 2007: 'this thing is going to be really big'

Obama predicted the iPhone's triumph after meeting Steve Jobs in 2007: 'this thing is going to be really big' Way back when President Obama was still a Senator from Illinois, he was apparently presented with an original iPhone unit during a private meeting with Apple's late CEO Steve Jobs. The encounter happened in 2007, when Barack Obama was already a presidential hopeful, and a rising star in the Democratic Party, after the famous fiery 2004 speech he gave at its national convention.

He apparently played around with what Steve Jobs presented to him, and after the meeting quipped to his staff "If it were legal, I would buy a boatload of Apple stock. This thing is going to be really ...Read More>>>>>