Washington: Barack Obama is the executive head of the world's No. 1 superpower but one would be surprised to know that he can't own an iPhone though he wants to use it .
Obama has been using Blackberry since long. Obama said in a speech promoting Obamacare to a youth audience attending a summit at The White House that he is not allowed to have an iPhone, for security reasons .
He added that his daughters Sasha and Malia spend a lot of time on their iPhones.
These restriction are not new to White House. Obama wouldn't even have had a BlackBerry if the NSA had its way in 2009. It was only after he declared that the government would have to “pry it out of my hands” that he was able to obtain a version of the communicator with beefed-up security .
iPhone belongs to Apple . According to revelations by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden , Apple was one of several tech companies that have allowed the National Security Agency (NSA) direct access to servers containing customer data, though the companies deny the allegation.
