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The more mission-critical you get, the more you're concerned with reliability over features. The reason the president uses a Blackberry is probably similar to
by abalone 13y ago
The more mission-critical you get, the more you're concerned with reliability over features.
The reason the president uses a Blackberry is probably similar to the reason the latest Mars rover uses an ancient PowerPC. It's been battle tested long enough and subject to enough scrutiny that you don't have to worry about it as much.
- cstejerean 13y agoAs far as I remember from back in '08, Obama uses a blackberry because he asked for it after winning the presidency. He used it heavily during his campaign, and wanted to hang on to it after getting the presidency. They had to go through some trouble to create an NSA certified version for Obama to use.
- mikelyons 13y agoDoD and Boeing have been on BB with special security for ages.