President Obama uses iPhone to make first post on personal Twitter account

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Source: Apple Insider

U.S. President Barack Obama made his first post from a personal Twitter account on Monday, doing so from an Executive Office iPhone despite previous worries about the device's security.

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"Hello, Twitter! It's Barack. Really! Six years in, they're finally giving me my own account," the president said.

Although Obama already has access to @BarackObama and @WhiteHouse, both of those are typically run by White House staff, with only an occasional tweet by Obama. The new @POTUS account is Obama's own, although the White House Deputy Director of Online Engagement, Alex Wall, said that it will be transferred to successors.

Metadata in the tweet reveals that Obama posted using the official Twitter iPhone client. In 2013, Obama told Time he was using a BlackBerry because he wasn't allowed to have iPhone. Even though the popularity of BlackBerries has declined rapidly since the first iPhone shipped in 2007, the BlackBerry data infrastructure is still considered extremely secure and remains a staple in some government and corporate environments.

Read more: http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/05/18/president-obama-uses-iphone-to-make-first-post-on-personal-twitter-account

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1. Bitching from False Noise and the Right-Whine

in 5...4...3...2...

[Cha]

2. "Dad, husband, and the 44th President of the United States".. Mahalo onehandle~

http://theobamadiary.com/2015/05/18/welcome-to-twitter-mr-president/

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3. Has he blocked Anthony Weiner yet?

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4. And racist Twitter users reacted predictably:

http://www.ifyouonlynews.com/politics/welcome-to-twitter-ngger-conservatives-greet-president-obamas-entry-into-twitterverse-screenshots/

[Xithras]

5. Bit suprised he uses an iPhone.

Officially, the only two smartphones approved for secure government use are Blackberries and phones running Knox (the DoD's own highly secure version of Android, designed to run on Samsung phones). I wonder if Apple finally relented and handed the iOS source over the government so they could hack out some of the features they had issues with (or just came up with a government secure version themselves).

[onehandle]

6. Macs and iPhones seemingly are the majority of hardware in this White House.

When ever you see photos in the west wing, that's most everything you see.

Furthermore, corporate America is embracing Apple products big time. It's one of the reasons Microsoft has been focusing on keeping Office not only current in OS X and iOS, but in reality, ahead of Windows and every other platform.

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7. Not my experience as a sysadmin of both platforms. n/t

[onehandle]

8. Apple Devices Flow Into Corporate World

As technology shifts from personal computers to smartphones and tablets, Apple Inc. is expanding its reach into a lucrative customer base: companies.

The popularity of the iPhone and iPad among employees is prompting corporate tech managers to rewrite policies and change traditional buying patterns. The iPhone has replaced the BlackBerry as the mobile phone of choice, as the iPad assumes tasks once reserved for PCs.

Apple won about 8% of global business and government spending on computers and tablets in 2012, Forrester Research says, up from 1% in 2009. By 2015, Forrester estimates that figure will climb to 11%. The numbers exclude the iPhone, which may be the most widely purchased Apple product by corporate customers. It is often Apple's gateway into a business.

LG&E and KU Energy LLC, Kentucky's biggest electric utility, shows how Apple gains a foothold inside companies, and then expands its reach.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304244904579278560822979176

And this article is a year and a half old. Projections are Much higher now. It's my experience that SysAdmins are reluctant to adapt fearing 'problems.' Maybe your environment is years behind the times. If people at my global company couldn't use OS X and iOS there would be Hell to pay.

[Xithras]

10. Those numbers are skewed.

Most of the numbers on Apples enterprise sales are deceptive, because they include mobile device sales such as tablets. Nobody disputes that Apple outsells everyone else when it comes to tablet sales in corporate environments, but if you factor those out andlook solely at desktop sales, their outlook is far bleaker. Apple desktop sales are still barely a blip in the market, and Macbook's still account for less than 1 in 10 corporate laptop sales. The desktop market is still solidly owned by Microsoft.

As for this little fairy tale: "As technology shifts from personal computers to smartphones and tablets, ..." Actual surveys done by actual technology research firms clearly show that there is no such shift. It's media hype perpetuated and repeated by fanboys. Smartphones and tablets have largely augmented existing desktop infrastructure, and only very rarely displace desktop computers in the enterprise environment. The relatively small percentage of enterprise employees who are given a mobile device get it to run alongside their desktop computer, and not in place of it. While Apple is doing great at selling those tablets, they still aren't making much headway at pushing the Windows desktops out of the market. This is because rewriting or repurchasing enterprise applications to make them Mac compatible represents a much larger investment than the machines themselves, and most enterprise environments are hesitant to rewrite or replace software that is otherwise working perfectly for them.

[Gore1FL]

12. I haven't seen a shift from personal computers to smartphones and tablets in a meaningful way

I see smartphones and tablets supplementing them. I support OSX on Desktop/laptop systems. I support Windows Desktops and servers. I've not seen anything remotely enterprise-worthy from Apple.

I've been to conventions and heard about the great tablet takeover. I work for an organization that has tried on multiple occasions to find a meaningful use for them. Every screen is equipped with an Apple TV to support the large number of tablets that few really use.

Sure there are sales. I've seen hype. I've seen the purchase. I've got one in the other room that's basically been charging since 2012. It's sitting next to my work laptop that I do use. Normally I use my PC.

In my office at work, I typically use 2 desktops, and usually 1 laptop. They aren't going away.

I will grant there will be users for which a tablet is a perfect substitute for a PC or laptop. That simply isn't the case on the enterprise for most users. The MDM solutions I've seen are a joke. VDI-type solutions don't work well on a tablet for the exact opposite reason Windows 8.0 didn't work well on PCs.

What we probably will see is a merging of the technologies that allow us to have wireless mobility but with a choice of interfaces, be it a keyboard, a touchpad, a joystick, an eyelid. I don't think there is a day coming soon where we don't have keyboards and big monitors.

We are pretty cutting edge. The environment demands it. I expect to have the majority of the environment on Windows 10 by fall of 2016 with test deployments occurring in late 2015/early 2016. So, no. That isn't it. We can and fo use OS X and iOS. It's simply that no one has discover a real need to use iOS on anything other than their personal phone. I've seen people use iPds as a substitute for paper, too. Macs have a lot of interesting uses from their UNIX terminal to using something like inDesign.

As the "reluctant" Sysadmins that you were judging for doing their jobs in accessing reality just how well Single Sign On with a domain ID works in iOS or OSX.

[Xithras]

9. I suppose that depends on which numbers you look at.

If you're basing your numbers purely on enterprise device support, then Apple wins (98% of enterprise networks test for and optimize iOS compatibility, while only 78% do the same for Android). If you're looking at actual BYOD connection numbers, however, then the numbers are still pretty much a dead heat, mirroring the general sales trends for mobile devices in general.

If you're claiming that OSX has displaced Windows in the enterprise, then you've got to be kidding. While the enterprise is doing a much better job at allowing Apple desktops into the network (a decade ago, nearly all major companies simply banned them outside the creative offices), actual OSX desktop penetration is still under 3% of the overall market and has been flat. Macbooks tend to fare only a little better, with between 8% and 10% of the enterprise market, depending on the numbers you're looking at. This is primarily because enterprise offices are usually running proprietary enterprise software applications specific to the various industries, written by in-house IT, or created for their business by consultants, and few of those applications are Mac friendly. It's great that the secretaries can use Word on a Mac, but most enterprise workers aren't hanging out in Office all day (except maybe to keep Outlook open).

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13. hubs works in financial industry. used to be blackberry only.

but they started letting people choose their own phones a few years ago. lots of people, including him, went iphone.
still use the company secured comm system, but...

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11. That's nice, I guess

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14. It's only LBN if you're programmed to...