I don't know about you but my mobile phone carrier keeps records of exactly when I place phone calls, how long I stay on the line, and even who I call! Can you believe these guys??

Oh no, quick: someone is WRONG on the internet!

I'm not sure they should worry so much about the shift to 48fps.
If anything it's a great excuse for another re-release of all their past work.

"And now, for the first time ever in Smooth D(tm), Bambi. Completely remastered and more life-like than ever."

I hear they immediately sent out 1,299 apology emails.

For what it's worth XenClient is exactly what you need, though it requires a Citrix infrastructure at work so it might not work out. But you'd have an hypervisor on the laptop with two VMs, Work and Home. Work is loaded by IT and sync'd with XenDesktop, and Home is loaded by you and you control everything on it. Complete isolation of both images.

This came out last week. It is based on a survey of 1000 tablet owners in Canada only. I'd say within 2-3% margin of error it sounds about right. I'm in Canada and we have sold a lot of PlayBooks, mostly to people who would have liked an iPad but couldn't justify the 400$ more it cost.

Sadly no. I use Citrix Receiver but that requires the Citrix architecture in the background. Other than that no gems yet I'm afraid. The platform and hardware are nice, just waiting on the apps...

You're looking at it wrong. They didn't cripple it to sell more phones, they developped the product when they still had good market share in the mobile world and wanted to sell PlayBooks into existing BlackBerry accounts. It was a way to bypass IT having to manage another device and piggyback on the already-approved BlackBerries in enterprise (think FIPS approval, etc). They did not expect then that nobody would want BlackBerry devices anymore, and that it would be a major handicap to the PlayBook to not be able to function as a standalone device.
Short-sighted yes, malicious tactic I think not.

^ this

I think they already got help from a woman, I've seen a documentary on the process on TV the other day...

What answer do you expect on Slashdot?

Who says you can't dev for both?
You can write Flex apps that are compatible with iOS, Android and Playbook all at once. Even if you don't like Air or Flex, you can use HTML5 for your iOS app and port to WebWorks for Playbook and BlackBerry.

... so it works on OS X?

William Shatner, is that you?

That was my sentiment as well. I read their statement when I woke up this morning and immediately changed my Paypal password. I advised everyone I know that has a Paypal to do the same and to make sure they don't use a common password, but a UNIQUE one. I have a feeling they have already lifted a few accounts and the info will be posted soon.