Posted on 05/25/2016 10:22:43 AM PDT by Swordmaker
Apple's Tim Cook saw an iPhone in 350-year-old painting
The Apple chief executive joked saying he thought he knew when and where the iPhone was invented.
Apparently the iPhone was invented nearly 350 years ago, according to Apple boss Tim Cook's interpretation of a painting.
During a chat at the Start-up Fest event in Amsterdam on Tuesday, Cook spoke to former European Commissioner Neelie Kroes about topics ranging from health to the future of TV.
But the pair shared an anecdote from the night before when Kroes took Cook to Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum.
"Do you happen to know Tim, where and when the iPhone was invented?" Kroes asked Cook on stage.
The Apple chief executive explained that in one painting at the museum he thought he saw the subject holding an iPhone.
"You know, I thought I knew until last night. Last night Neelie took me over to look at some Rembrandt and in one of the paintings I was so shocked. There was an iPhone in one of the paintings," Cook jokingly explained.
Koreas showed a picture of the painting but it was a little blurry.
"It's tough to see but I swear it's there," Cook said.
The painting Cook was referring to was not in fact by the Dutch painter Rembrandt. It was painted by Pieter de Hooch in 1670 and is entitled "Man Hands a Letter to a Woman in a Hall." The letter in the picture sort of looks like an iPhone.
"I always thought I knew when the iPhone was invented, but now I'm not so sure anymore," Cook said.
Just to be clear though, the first iPhone was released in 2007 when Steve Jobs was still in charge of Apple.
it’s a hair brush
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How stupid, it’s obviously a tricorder.
Not with the seated woman wearing a hat and her hair in a buns or braids. . . besides, the person with the thing in hand is a guy.
The iPhone was invented in our time, but during one my time-travelling forays, I lost it while stealing a few brand new Rembrandt paintings. I hate when that happens.
Possible, but what is an iPhone but an early form of Tricorder?
In 1890's photos too
It looks like a candy bar.
Turned out it was a hearing aid! One high tech for its time! I believe its called the 34a model hearing aid. I thought it was really funny! This is kinda like it. Either she's holding a postcard or a brush. I mean Iphone's in the baroque period? C'mon!
The kid outside... is she fixing to go fishing in the canal? or wallop that dog with a whip?
That’s a TV remote. She’s pointing to the TV and telling him to change the channel.
Maybe it’s a Dutch Guilder bank note.
Perhaps he is paying her for a service now rendered.
How could you be so careless?
When the last Apple ever admitted they didn’t invent something they try an claim patent on?
Get back to me when he sees a cell phone tower 300 years ago
ONE I-phone does not a conversation make....
Contact the Doctor and have him ask Clara if she’s misplaced her iPhone recently.
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Fine for angry birds, tho. ;|
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