Who Really Invented the Blackberry?
They’re like crack for the geek crowd. What are they? The Blackberry and evidently Presidential-hopeful John McCain invented them. At least that’s what McCain’s senior policy advisor would like you to believe.
Los Angeles Times: “Douglas Holtz-Eakin held up his little device to show reporters in Miami as he sought to explain why McCain was qualified to lead the nation out of its economic morass.
‘He did this,’ Holtz-Eakin said. ‘The premier innovation in the past 15 years comes right from the commerce committee. So, you’re looking at the miracle that John McCain helped create.’
McCain is a veteran member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation, which oversees telecommunication as well as aviation, trade and other economic sectors. He headed the panel from 1997 to 2001 and in 2003-04.
‘He both regulated and deregulated that industry,’ Holtz-Eakin said.
McCain, however, has not focused on telecom, has never chaired the telecommunications subcommittee and was one of only two senators to vote against a sweeping telecom deregulation bill in 1996.
The senator from Arizona later laughed off innovative acumen attributed to him, according to campaign senior aide Matt McDonald. ‘He would not claim to be the inventor of anything, much less the BlackBerry. This was obviously a boneheaded joke by a staffer,’ McDonald said.”
Wikipedia doesn’t list the true geniuses who came up with the idea for the biggest toy of the intellectually gifted in the last 20 years only that it uses the RIM Operating System and was once called the “LeapFrog”, which is now a popular childrens toy. Go figure.
For the record RIM (Research in Motion), makers of the Blackberry, is actually a CANADIAN firm so McCain couldn’t have made the Blackberry unless he’s Canadian. Go Canucks!
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