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Phone and power companies are not run by the government but they are required, by said government, to provide services at a reasonable cost to rural locations. I don't see why the USPS couldn't be required to abide by the same type of policy without needing to be a government agency.
Great, so you can technically use two applications at a time, although the second application gets shoe-horned into a tiny, non-resizable portion of the screen. You've never had to consolidate information or designs from more than two windows, or from sections that do not neatly fit in a staticly sized window that can never grow or shrink? Ever?
How many of those vulnerabilities allow complete root/administrator level access to the entire system? I may be guilty of observational bias, but it seems that every time I bother reading the details of windows vulnerabilities, they mention that it grants the attacker complete control of the system.
Windows 7 was just as "snappy" when it first came out. When Windows 8 gets bloated with over a hundred security patches under its belt we'll see just how snappy it is. Frankly, I'm not bothering with Windows 8 just for a nicer Task Manager and crappy user experience.
They could be booting a LiveCD image in the background while they're displaying all of the AMD, ATI, Nvidia, Intel, Dolby Digital, SquareEnix, LucaArts, EA, and other development and production house, etc. full screen ads that come up when you launch any major title these days. I doubt anyone would notice the additional delay of loading an entire operating system.
Our CFO bought a Blackberry Playbook when they first came out, partly because he is (or was) a stockholder. I took a look at the app store and basically saw about 10,000 temperature conversion apps (for only $1.99 each!) and not much else. Needless to say I was not impressed. It didn't help that you had to tether the damn thing in to an existing Blackberry handheld to access email, so they were only ever going to sell them to existing Blackberry customers. The user interface for enabling said tethering was convoluted, not user-friendly, and didn't work out of the box. It required a software update to work, and the software update process was confusing and didn't seem to work most of the time. It had a damn nice screen with good build quality, but the user interface and software was lacking in so many ways that he finally gave up on it and got an iPad.
Right, because history has shown that all straight married couples always, without a doubt, are absolutely guaranteed to raise perfectly normal, well-adjusted children every time.
Yes, all of these are great ideas with the possible exception of the second one. Yes, make an enterprise management solution for iPhones, but for $DIETY's sake, don't make it anything like BES server!