The popularity of the handheld device produced by Apple has deeply integrated it into the daily lives of every individual. iPhones have become so ubiquitous that sometimes people imagine this phone appearing in places where popular smartphones shouldn’t exist. The latest evidence is an image that is said to be visible in paintings from centuries ago.
The painting below is titled The Expected One, a work by 19th-century Austrian artist Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller. And its image is going viral online as it appears that the girl in the center of the painting is holding… an iPhone.
Of course, according to some authoritative sources, it is not an iPhone. This painting has religious elements, so the girl may be holding something like a hymn book.
And in fact, another painting also shows similar signs, even catching the attention of Apple CEO Tim Cook himself. That work is titled “A Man Giving a Letter to a Woman in the Hall” by Pieter de Hooch, painted in 1670. This painting even shocked Tim Cook when he saw it at a museum during a trip to Amsterdam. The story was shared by him in a subsequent interview when asked: “Tim, do you happen to know where and when the iPhone was invented?”
“You know, I thought I knew that until last night,” Cook shared. “Last night Neelie took me to see some paintings, and one of them shocked me. There was an iPhone in it. It’s hard to see, but I swear it was there.”
In fact, like the name suggests, what the character in the painting is holding is an envelope. But the artist made it look like an iPhone.
“I always thought I knew when the iPhone was invented, but now I’m not so sure,” the Apple CEO said.
However, it should be clearly confirmed that the first iPhone was released in 2007 when Steve Jobs was still in charge of Apple.
Source: BGR