Barack Obama Finds Blackberry "No Fun" On Television

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In the early days of his administration, President Obama fought tooth and nail to keep his Blackberry, and in the end, following a massive security revamping, won out. But in his recent appearance on The View, he acknowledged something that at least a few Blackberry owners feel: that the phone is just no fun.

Of course, he doesn’t think it’s not fun because he got one of the older ones that weren’t very heavy with the games, but rather because only ten people have the address to the heavily secured device and thus he’s not getting anything “juicy”. Speaking as someone who’s tried out more than a few Blackberry models, I can see where someone would find them short on the entertainment options.

What’s more, anything that does cross his Blackberry desktop would, at least so his messengers think, likely be subject to the Presidential Records Act and thus consists of the dryest possible material, such as “Mr. President, you have a meeting coming up and we’d like to brief you.”.

Admittedly, not much fun there, but it is a work phone, after all. We all know from experience that the fun stuff should be kept off working phones.