While Warren Buffett stuck with a basic flip phone until 2020, many billionaires have moved onto smartphones for a long time .
In a TV interview on CNBC on February 23, billionaire Warren Buffett said, “My phone is completely broken.” Before that, he used a Samsung SCH-U320 basic flip phone which sold for only about 20 USD (less than 500,000 VND) on Ebay for many years. Photo: CNN.
Although Apple CEO Tim Cook gave iPhone X and instructions on how to use it, the world’s fourth richest billionaire still refuses to use a smartphone. It wasn’t until the flip phone broke, that Mr. Buffett considered using an iPhone. Photo: CNBC.
Billionaire Bill Gates has been using a phone running Microsoft’s operating system for years. The company he founded created the Windows Mobile operating system, then the Windows Phone, but could not compete with more modern smartphone operating systems. Photo: AP.
In 2017, Microsoft officially announced to stop developing Windows Phone, but this operating system has been defeated before Android, iOS from the beginning. In 2017, when asked about the smartphone he was using, Bill Gates said he switched to an Android phone “with a lot of Microsoft software”, but didn’t specify which one. Photo: Fox News.
Billionaire Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, used BlackBerry phones for many years, then switched to using a Samsung smartphone before his company launched the Fire Phone. Photo: AP.
After the failure of the Fire Phone and quickly discontinuing production, Jeff Bezos switched to using iPhone. The most recent information is that he is using an iPhone X. The phone was hacked in 2019 through a message in the WhatsApp software to get photos and personal contact information of Jeff Bezos. Photo: Reuters.
As the CEO of Apple, perhaps Tim Cook always uses the latest iPhones, even not released yet. In 2019, he once admitted “spending more time on the phone than I thought”. Photo: CNBC.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been spotted using iPhones many times. He is said to always receive gifts of Apple logo phones from Apple’s boss.
Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, once shared on Quora’s Q&A page that he used a Samsung Galaxy S5. The last time, in mid-2018, he said he had updated to the Samsung Galaxy S7 series.
Elon Musk, the owner of two major technology companies, Tesla and SpaceX, is known to be an “follower” of the iPhone. He frequently mentioned “iPhone” or “iPad” in his conversations. Ashlee Vance, who wrote the biography of Elon Musk, also mentioned his habit of using the iPhone. Photo: Getty.
Before taking office as President of the United States, Mr. Donald Trump used a personal phone, said to be a Samsung Galaxy S3. During the US presidential campaign, data researcher David Robinson analyzed Trump’s Twitter posts and concluded that the tweets sent from an Android phone were written by Mr. Trump himself. Photo: NY Times.
After becoming president, he gave up his old Android to switch to “an encrypted, secure device” approved by the US Secret Service. According to the New York Times, the iPhone that the US President is using does not have a web browser, and the functions are very limited to ensure safety, avoiding hackers to look. Twitter is the only third-party application on Mr. Trump’s iPhone.
