“Count the president of the United States as among those who are intrigued by the new iPhone 6,” Julie Hirschfeld Davis reports for The New York Times. “In New York this week to meet with world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly, President Obama spotted one of the devices being used by Bahrain’s ambassador, according to a pool report.”
“As journalists were being hustled out of a meeting between Mr. Obama and Middle Eastern leaders who are being urged to join the United States’ expanding offensive against the Islamic State, the president was overheard asking the ambassador whether his phone was the new 6. Indeed, he was told, it was,” Davis reports. “It was small talk that may have been designed to evade more serious questions about world events; the chat came just after Mr. Obama ignored a reporter’s shouted query about whether he was comfortable being seen as a “war president.”
Davis reports, “Still, it suggested that Mr. Obama, known for clinging to his BlackBerry in an increasingly smartphone-dominated world, is not immune from coveting Apple’s newest craze.”
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[Attribution: Cult of Mac. Thanks to MacDailyNews readers too numerous to mention individually for the heads up.]
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