SO it's official, Obama is president. My wife can smugly say "she called it" at the end of the democratic national convention 8 years ago where he gave, what I describe as an oration, rather just a speech.
He's done it again, and again, and slowly people got over the fact that he was black, a lawyer, (law professor more intimidatingly) at least somewhat from Africa, has an Arabic middle name.. ok seriously, did anybody bother vetting this guy at all? and thus occurred, what I often refer to as the most unlikely and therefore somehow absolutely certain thing: Barack Hussein Obama is now President of the United States of America.
In the same week, thanks to my new job, I'm starting to meet lots of interesting people in the handset business, carrier business, and general mobile technology space. I've discovered that i am like a crack dealer um, candy store.. I have Free BBC content, they have devices..
I feel slightly dirty, plus I get new phones all the time (newest is a new Blackberry Bold) which once Siemens get their hands on it and do whatever voodoo they need to do, I'll be able to use! BTW the Blackberry strategy is genius, leveraging the enterprise to build consumer, app stores, alignment of side-loading and streaming. I'm keen to see them deploy it; though curious how it will play against Apple (entrenched leader) and the new Palm (which is like the rebel alliance as it's management is all former apple folks)
But mostly it made me wonder about Barack's Blackberry, which had been slated for cold fingered pry-based removal. BUT WAIT. in what is possibly his FIRST act of presidential executive privilege, he got to keep it! This, gives me even more faith that this is a man who's gonna get things done, most particularly in the midst of other, even more boring meetings.
Made me decide to phone bomb our IT desk to get my Bold activated.. joining my n96, iPhone and soon HTC HD (for demo's only)as my tools for increased productivity in the face of mind-numbing bureaucracy.
Originally posted on rxdxt.vox.com
