Outside Washington, D.C., the world is moving at warp speed away from the BlackBerry. At its maker, profits are declining and executives are leaving, and the BlackBerry has even conceded its perch as the top smartphone in its native Canada.
Inside the Beltway, time stands still. A half-million federal workers, President Obama and his staff among them, are still thumbing little black keyboards on little black devices. And that number hasn’t dipped over the past few years while Research In Motion, BlackBerry’s maker, has recorded plummeting sales everywhere else
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