Trump’s ‘Muslim Ban’ could have doomed Apple

If you subscribe to the butterfly effect—the idea that a tiny change in one part of the world can have massive side effects elsewhere—then you know that a President Trump in 1949 (as opposed to President Truman) and an executive order banning immigration from Syria, could have meant that one of the most successful companies of all time, Apple, might never have existed at all.

Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs, who was adopted shortly after his birth in 1955, was born to Abdul Fattah Jandali, and Joanne Carol Schieble. The two met while students at the University of Wisconsin.

Jandali, however, was born in Syria in 1931, and emigrated from Beirut in 1949. He was, in other words, a Syrian National.  Read more...

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