President Obama finally owns an iPad
Last November President Obama saw Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva using an iPad while at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders' retreat in Yokohama, Japan. After a brief exchange about the iPad versus lugging around books, it appears the President was swayed.
Maybe it's the fact that the iPad 2 has just come out, or maybe it's because Obama and Steve Jobs had dinner together, and Steve pitched Obama hard, but now the President has told reporters that he does own an actual iPad.
Speaking at a town hall in Washington, DC today, President Obama was asked by news anchor Jorge Ramos if he owns an iPad, to which Obama replied, "I do have an iPad." The President then went on to joke, "I mean, Jorge, I'm the President of the United States. You think I've got to go borrow somebody's computer? Hey, man, can I borrow your computer? How about you? You've got one?"
There's no word on which iPad Obama owns, but it's probably a safe bet that he didn't have to stand in line with the thousands of others on launch day.
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Last November President Obama saw Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva using an iPad while at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB0Paw-bNSg&sns=em
Woops!
In good old Germany every tiny politician has one (most of them an ipad1). Half of the Bundestag is using it probably to show how up to date they are.
March 29 2011 at 9:14 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWhat is TUAW trying to convey with this post? A proven idiot uses an iPad? So all iPad users are idiots?
...and the trolls keep trolling.
March 29 2011 at 9:35 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI had someone in Belgium want the US State Seal engraved on their iPads and I said no... I'd do it for the white house though!
March 28 2011 at 9:00 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI wish he spent more time on fixing the economy!
March 28 2011 at 8:01 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyGood, but do the First Lady and the First Daughters have one?
March 28 2011 at 7:36 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyHe uses Stimulus money that ben printed for him. Maybe he got one at Target since the tea party is targeting his job for 2012.
March 28 2011 at 6:49 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyOh Brother. Another Mis-Appropriation.
March 28 2011 at 6:25 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyAfter the Blackberry issue we can assume its not 3g. I wonder what the white house security guys think of it.
March 28 2011 at 6:14 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyDidn't they have to sedate him before the inauguration and pry the crackberry from his iron grip?
I don't think the general public ever understood how wired our president was and still is.
@people locking spending,
You got it all wrong. It's a campaign contribution by Apple for 2012. I'm sure other camidates will be getting one, once they announce, for when Apple hosts the FaceTime debate. :P
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