Fortune’s Philip Elmer-DeWitt notes that while the President of the U.S. may carry a BlackBerry on his belt, he does his demos on a Mac. Actually during his appearance on The View yesterday, Barack Obama lamented that the fun he used to have with his BlackBerry is over because associates infer that anything they send him could end up in the Presidential Record, and no longer forward any “juicy stuff.”
Anyway, Elmer-DeWitt recalls that when Obama first took office, it was reported that his campaign staff, accustomed to working on laptop Macs, were dismayed to find the Bush White House equipped with desktops running outdated versions of Microsoft Windows, and notes that in his public remarksObama tends to play the technophobe, using Apple products as a prop, such as with his recent statement that “With iPods and iPads, and Xboxes and PlayStations – none of which I know how to work – information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation.”
