Blackberry may be struggling to gain market share, but the phone maker still has at least one loyal customer: Barack Obama.

The president was boarding Marine One on Friday when he realized that his phone was missing. So, he hopped out, swooped his Blackberry, and held up the device to reporters:

Obama has been a longtime Blackberry owner, despite the fact that the Canadian company has just a 2.3 percent share of the U.S. smartphone market as of August. He told the Wall Street Journal last year that he can’t have an iPhone due to security reasons.

Blackberry wrote its own blog post today titled, “You Can’t Run the World’s Most Powerful Nation Without Your BlackBerry, President Obama Discovers.”

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