President Barack Obama may be the last person still using a BlackBerry.
While speaking with youths about his healthcare law, Obama says he is not allowed to use Apple's iPhone smartphone 'for security reasons,' therefore sticking with his BlackBerry. The President does use an iPad, however.
Obama says he fought to keep his BlackBerry after becoming President in 2009, although he said ... [ read the full article ]
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It is probably full of security holes but being able to track your every move is probably #1. An assassin could hack into where ever and fire off a small guided missile that uses POTUS's GPS in his smart phone while he is in the air. Not a very smart phone is it?
Google tracks everything you do regardless...and they have all the best apps for all three major mobile platforms (Android, iOS, Windows). It wouldn't really be an issue if not for DHS/NSA snooping on everyone and (probably) using the same (or less) security that they used for all the stuff now on WikiLeaks. Of course Android can be more secure than BB, as military testing has shown...but for someone so techno-ignorant that he prohibited testing of the healthcare exchange until two weeks before launch (supposedly to keep it from looking bad), the idea of "learning" how to use an Android is probably as frightening as keeping a campaign promise.
