“For the first time ever, the U.S. Senate is allowing offices to ditch the PC and go Mac – and Sen. Mike Lee is totally going there,” Thomas Burr reports for The Salt Lake Tribune.
“Lee, a Utah Republican and the youngest senator, has an iPhone and boasts a large Mac screen on his desk in his new temporary office, and the rest of his staff have embraced the Apple as well,” Burr reports. “Before this year, the Senate system didn’t allow Macs, I’m told, but maybe Steve Jobs has convinced the new, more youthful upper chamber to join the cult.”
Burr reports, “Sen. Orrin Hatch’s office, by the way, is still using Windows, but the senator does have an iPad and only gave up his iPhone when he got too frustrated with getting a signal in the Capitol.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Way to go AT&T. Yet again, you taint iPhone with your abject incompetence. Soon, we pray, everyone in the U.S. will have a choice of iPhone carriers.
[Attribution: TUAW. Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Edward W.” for the heads up.]
I’m proud to have been one of the state delegates who bounced Bennett at convention and elected Lee. He’ll bring some great balance to the Senate.
I thought Obama’s staff were Mac users?
@ KenC
They are, but the Senate has its own IT department which has not allowed Macs until now.
Good news. Please don’t start with the partisan political posts.
Sen. Orrin Hatch uses MS Windows?
Why is that not surprising?
Macs in the Senate? That should raise the average IQ there above 100.
If the Senate went ALL Mac they could get rid of half of their IT Department!
“Sen. Orrin Hatch uses MS Windows?
Why is that not surprising?”
Maybe because they ALL used Windows up till now?
Nah….
2 Senators from Utah – it’s only appropriate that they have multiple computers BUT they all have to look alike, have multiple users, and are only allowed to boot into safe mode.
Now THAT’S change I can believe in
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This is great news! But I’m still trying to fugue out how Macs “returned” to the senate offices if they weren’t allowed before now…
Bullshit!
The Late Senator Edward Kennedy’s office was all Mac years ago.
Try polititrolling with something so obviously not an outright lie.
Always love a journalist who uses the phrase “cult” to describe Mac users. Yep, that’s good journalism.
I believe that my cousin Abe would have been a Mac Head.
I can just see him composing the Gettysburg Address on an iPad now….
It must be a regional thing, because ATnT coverage in Orange County has be significantly better than when I had verizon. I had dropped calls consistently with VZ and only occasionally with ATnT, and, I have 3600 extra minutes to spare!
@Mark S.,
Cousin? Damn, you must be REALLY old!
How can Mac’s be returning if this is the first time ever?
Is not the first time? I think I agree on Ted’s offices a long time ago.
Why am I not surprised that MDN can get is straight?
I have been meaning to congratulate MDN for abandoning its vitriolic attack on AT&T but then you publish your response to the news of Macs in the Senate. Lighten up MDN.
Your barrage is overkill and overstated. You have begged and implored Steve Jobs to cut the ties that bind with the carrier, but you never really knew what those ties were.
Perhaps Apple needed the exclusive in order to gain its foothold, to establish its independence from the herd.
I, for one, appreciate that Apple held to its commitment even in the face of ridicule from the likes of you. Steve Jobs has shown that his yes means yes, something MDN needs to learn.
Well worth reading:
“Macs’ Last Stand on Capitol Hill”
http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mac/news/2002/05/52175
@ MacDailyNews Take: “Way to go AT&T. Yet again, you taint iPhone with your abject incompetence. Soon, we pray, everyone in the U.S. will have a choice of iPhone carriers.”
NOT JUST THE iPHONE AND/OR AT&T
http://www.cellreception.com/coverage/dc/washington/page1.html
Thomas Burr: .. “join the cult.” What a flaming jerkoff jackwagon.
I’m getting old, but there’s a bunch of Abe’s cousins around and I am just one.
No, No, MDN…. you misunderstand the “only gave up his iPhone when he got too frustrated with getting a signal in the Capitol.”….
Senator Hatch WAS getting a signal….. that was the problem…. this way he had excuses for not knowing what was going on…..
@ Craig
Try re-reading the article.
I too don’t like people mindlessly using that meme, however,MDN is not to blame here.
If there is any thread that should permit partisan banter, this is it.
Have at it.