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The 2010 "phone wars" (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by slazer2au to c/antiquememesroadshow

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Quite an old joke.
I do miss my old Blackberry 9900

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[–] FlyingSquid 22 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Obama was forced to use a Blackberry while president and he hated it.

"I get the thing, and they're all like, 'Well, Mr. President, for security reasons ... it doesn't take pictures, you can't text, the phone doesn't work, ... you can't play your music on it,'" Obama said during an appearance on The Tonight Show this week. "Basically, it's like, does your three-year-old have one of those play phones?"

https://www.theverge.com/2016/6/11/11910306/obama-upgrades-from-blackberry

Edit: Ugh, I hate the way The Verge totally failed at punctuation.

[–] ozymandias117 8 points 5 months ago

That quote is about the replacement phone, not the Blackberry

isn't thrilled with this new phone either

Any secure phone will have the same restrictions - the manufacturer doesn't make much difference in this case

[–] Telodzrum 5 points 5 months ago

The quote is about Obama being forced to give up his beloved BlackBerry and move to a secure phone.