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Posted on 10/04/2011 6:49:17 AM PDT by bkopto
U.S. President Barack Obama revealed recently that one of the perks of his job includes having received an advance copy of Apple's iPad 2 directly from Steve Jobs himself.
Obama revealed the fact in an interview with ABC News' George Stephanopoulous (via NetworkWorld).
“Steve Jobs actually gave it to me, a little bit early," he said. "Yeah, it was cool. I got it directly from him.”
Jobs may have had an opportunity to present Obama, a self-professed fan of Research in Motion's BlackBerry phones, with the device at a dinner in San Francisco in February, just two weeks before the unveiling of the iPad 2 in early March.
The dinner included several other prominent Silicon Valley executives, such as Google's Eric Schmidt, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Oracle's Larry Ellison. A photo of the gathering shows that Jobs was seated to the president's left.
In late March, Obama revealed in an interview that he owned an iPad and had tethered it to his BlackBerry smartphone.
(Excerpt) Read more at appleinsider.com ...
When big government picks winners and losers in the economy and it’s pay to play in government-business relations, comps are the rule, not the exception. The market should determine winners and losers in business, not government.
If Apple stuff wasn’t so cool and cutting edge, I’d never buy it. Do I want to live with a cool phone that as apps for everything or use another, less capable phone, politics can make us tough consumer choices.
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