The presidential office can be full of disappointments, it seems, on the technological as well as political end of the spectrum.
“The Oval Office, I always thought I was going to have really cool phones and stuff,” president Obama is reported to have told folks at a fundraising event at a Chicago restaurant.
“I’m like, c’mon guys, I’m the president of the United States. Where’s the fancy buttons and stuff and the big screen comes up? It doesn’t happen,” he went on.
The comments were apparently in response to questions about bottlenecks in technological innovation. The discussion was then sent to the White House accidentally, where it was picked up by press.
If we wanted to poke fun, we’d venture to say the president wouldn’t know too much about technological innovation and the bleeding edge of phones, being a BlackBerry man, indeed, it should make him used to dealing with disappoint in devices.
Still, If Obama wants a cell phone that glows in the dark, projects foreign leaders in hologram HD and detonates nukes remotely, someone should bloody well make him one! Or at least get him a white iPhone. After all, he is commander in chief.
