Barack Obama Signs iPad; Meets With Steve Jobs
Now sign my fingerprint scanner here with your finger, please.
The POTUS, Barack Obama, often makes public appearances to greet the citizens. People often go crazy and confess their love to the leader of the USA, seeking handshakes, photographs and autographs.
This one man, Sylvester Cann, wanted a new type of autograph – made from Obama's finger to his iPad.
And this is what he ended up with:
This is what Cann told TechCrunch about the event:
At a rally in Seattle, WA at the University of Washington, the President used the touchscreen on my iPad to give me his autograph. Secret service was leery about the idea, but they warmed up to the idea and the President thought it was cool.
He looked slightly surprised, but proceeded to use his finger to scribble on the iPad using the Adobe Ideas app.
I have a video of the event as well. This HAS to be the first time an iPad has received a Presidential autograph.
In somewhat related news, Obama stopped by the Bay Area last week to meet with those in the technology sector. The Mercury News reports that Obama met with Apple CEO Steve Jobs at the Westin Hotel in San Francisco for around 45 minutes. The two supposedly discussed technology, education and job creation.
Obama also spoke at a $30,400 per plate fundraiser at Google executive Marissa Mayer home.
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They'd have to pay me $30,400 to have dinner with him, not the reverse. Then again, our government doesn't have the money anymore.
I'm not sure how this is news, though. Why wouldn't he sign it? I'm surprised Jobs would meet Obama though. Most business leaders prefer conservative leaders.
Jesus, our president is too retarded as to not encourage actual technological advancement for the US by supporting a company that still uses core 2 duos in their labbies...I swear I need to move to japan one of these days...
I think he has other things to worry about than what processor Apple uses in their computers. Could be wrong.
@wasabiman123 good riddance, you and the rest of the japanophiles GTFO
This signature looks like a toddler did it compared to the others I've seen.
Wonder if any of these ravenous tools will even vote in the midterms.
Wow, that's gotta be a record. Not even past the first post and somebody has stood up on the political soap-box. Just don't slip and break your neck.
Fox News will hate iPads now.
LOL!!! No wonder a large number of fellow citizens can't read English, with that kind of a scroll, I'd rather read Arabic....... or Thai.....
Awww....way to devalue that iPad.
Jesus, our president is too retarded as to not encourage actual technological advancement for the US by supporting a company that still uses core 2 duos in their labbies...I swear I need to move to japan one of these days...
Wow dude. As a Japanese myself I can say sincerely that you make US look bad. Please don't move to Japan. We don't want you there.
Fox News will hate iPads now.
LOL
Guys, just stop with the political crap. Its so annoying to hear hypocrisy about the president being this and that.
politics and technology are 2 different worlds, how many president we know have PC enthusiast as their occupational background? Even if they were, you can use just the fingers on one hand to count.
I agree with jupiter, cut the political crap
Wow, those people sound like they're at a freaking Beatles concert. Chill girls, he's just a politician.
I actually stopped caring for Obama, when the whole.
Ban the internetz started.
am i the only one who sees a boob in the signature?
Watch out for that pretend pistol, Mr. President!
Jesus, our president is too retarded as to not encourage actual technological advancement for the US by supporting a company that still uses core 2 duos in their labbies...I swear I need to move to japan one of these days...
You obviously don't know much about Japan; this place is just full of weird people and anime porn, not "advanced technology"
I realize I was free not to click on the article and that I should not have read it if I have this opinion....
but seriously, this is not tech news! I know exciting things can't happen everyday so throw a tutorial or a review up of any random thing. This article simply states that the ipad has a touch screen. Furthermore, if this was any product (not just apple) I still would have wrote this comment. Simply just a pointless article.
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ROFLMAO @ waynewarrior78, good one man, practically read my mind.
Guys, just stop with the political crap. Its so annoying to hear hypocrisy about the president being this and that.
Better way to stop with people stating their opinions on politicians: Stop posting articles about them. Especially ones that have no real news included in them.
what it has to do with common people if president signs a iPad. He may have signed alot of bigger things as well and compared to those ipad is nothing. This news as well seems like a marketing stunt to me.
It may as well get hotter and if everybody gets a Tab to take autograph then president might send them all a digital copy of his sign
And if you didn't drool over PhysX and CUDA enough, you are cut out. This is exactly what Apple does to keep the press in line, but Apple has something Nvidia doesn't: competence....
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You obviously don't know much about Japan; this place is just full of weird people and anime porn, not "advanced technology"
And I suppose rest of the world doesn't have its share of weird people and oddities, I presume?
And I suppose rest of the world doesn't have its share of weird people and oddities, I presume?
They allow guys to marry anime cartoons.
For 45 minutes two control freaks discussed how to take over the world. Walled Garden and Internet Kill Switch - the dynamic duo.
If somebody handed Palin an iPad to sign she would have used an actual pen
Next My desktop... Carries LAN Lan Box*
If I were the camera man I would be so tempted to thump those big ass elephant ears.
And that Asian girl is giving him those eyes that just say "Hey Mr President, let me be your Monica Lewinsky"
Apple AND Obama...whoo boy, let the flames begin.
Apple AND Obama...whoo boy, let the flames begin.