Technical savant Donald Trump gives Tim Cook iPhone design advice

Donald Trump misses the home button.
By Jack Morse  on 
Technical savant Donald Trump gives Tim Cook iPhone design advice
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Donald Trump has a message for Tim Apple. Er, excuse me, Tim Cook.

Late Friday afternoon, the renowned technical expert and president of the United States decided that his buddy, the CEO of Apple, needed a little design advice. Specifically, Trump had some thoughts about the phasing out of the iPhone home button.

"To Tim," wrote the president, "The Button on the IPhone was FAR better than the Swipe!"

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The home button was, of course, ditched in 2017 with the advent of the iPhone X, but it appears that Trump just got the memo.

We reached out to Apple in an attempt to determine if the now Jony Ive-less company will take the president's helpful and well-informed critique to heart, but received no immediate response.

Cook, we assumes, swipes left on most things Trump related.

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