Updated Oct 24, 2026, 6:58 PM GMT Peter Thiel said that after Steve Jobs died in 2011, Apple hasn't innovated. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Peter Thiel, evidently, isn't a fan of the iPhone Duo. In fact, the billionaire PayPal cofounder and tech investor said he hasn't been very impressed with much of anything that Apple has done since its eccentric founder, Steve Jobs, died of cancer in 2011. "In my telling, it did nothing new after Jobs," Thiel said of the iPhone maker in a September interview

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