Earlier this week, U.S. President Barack Obama met with world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly. In the midst with the hubbub surrounding the Country's actions against the Islamic State, Obama was seen checking out Bahrain's ambassador's new iPhone 6.
According to the New York Times, during the UN meet-up, Obama spotted the iPhone 6 in the hands of the ambassador and asked whether his phone was "the new 6," to which the representative confirmed that it was.
Although just a passing conversation between two people, it isn't the first time Obama has been associated with Apple products. The President admitted to being an early adopter of the iPad 2. He also spent a portion of his time in office pushing for more funding for technology upgrades in schools through his ConnectED campaign. Apple participated in that campaign by donating $100 million worth of iPads, computers, and more.
The one thing the President does not own, however, is an iPhone. In 2013 Obama made an off-hand comment to reporters that he still uses Blackberry because he "is not allowed, for security reasons, to have an iPhone."
By the time Obama leaves office, Apple will already be working on the iPhone 8 (or and iPhone 7 if Apple follows the traditional "s" model every other year). I wonder what type of technology the company will have come up with by then? Maybe we will finally see a split-screen tablet.
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