http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/03/21/blackberry-is-keeping-its-user-in-chief-for-now/
"A White House spokesman said that the Executive Office of the President is not involved in any pilot program for testing non-BlackBerry phones and that there is nothing new to share about the president's BlackBerry."
And as I said the last time someone gawked over comments about the President not using iPhones: it's not about the device security... it's about whatever the White House's IT department is capable of developing for what THEY see as "secure." For the longest time they've implemented software for Blackberries. More than likely, they'll continue doing that because it's easier than learning to develop or deploy for anything else, iPhones included.
What's amazing about this is, when the "news" broke that the President might be testing non-Blackberry devices, Blackberry's stock took a 2.5% dive. I'm gobsmacked at what investors will do over what
a single user does.
(And regardless of who he is, he IS still just a single user, who by the way, has a use-case that is so different from anyone else's that it's practically irrelevant to most other people what he is using. If shareholders honestly believe that people aren't buying Blackberries anymore because maybe the President might someday stop using his, well, we now have sheer abject incompetence to explain what happens to stock prices.)
Also, the Defense Department and other agencies are allowing non-Blackberries in a pilot program, but they include Apple products as well as Android-based models.
