Any municipality that allows cellphone use while driving is, essentially, endorsing driverless cars. If someone gets engaged in a deep conversation on the phone, their driving skills drop below that of someone with 0.08% blood alcohol...

That's a classic bait n' switch. How usable would an OS that pops ads all the time be? What if, after installing, they upped the ad frequency etc? Would the ads be embedded or fetched over the network? Could you downgrade to your previously legally obtained, ad-free, OS without losing all your work?

This isn't an Apple bash or even a Steve Jobs bash. That idea is pure, unadulterated, marketing evilness.

The courts will be so completely swamped they'll be backed up for years and real criminals will go free due to extreme delays in getting a fair trial.

My guess is any charges of this sort will be tossed out.

Use of this product may cause:
- bloating
- sluggish behavior
- loss of memory
- sudden fits of aggression and/or rage
- a prolonged feeling of regret and/or disappointment leading to depression

Really, no basis at all in reality.

The editor who posted this should DIAF.

I dunno about the rest of you, but email and corp text chat are by far the worst productivity vampires for me. When those die, I get a few blessed hours of interrupt-free coding.

Sadly, being in an international corp, work non-standard hours just means I get queries from different folks in whichever timezone is normally working...

Data is data.

Whether its an app on a phone or my laptop plugged into my phone consuming bandwidth, its just bytes on the APN or bearer that the service provider has configured for data traffic. The only distinction is that the data is eventually routed over an interface with a direct electrical connection from the phone to another device. If I wrote an app that sent the data to a qcode-like on-screen icon that was read by a webcam, I could get around their "tethering" charges and still provide internet access to another device.

... and wouldn't stop when asked, I imagine colleagues would get pissed and find it a hard work environment to excel in.

I had a coworker became a born-again Christian. No one cared, until he tried to recruit us into a lunch-hour prayer group. When no one showed up, he decided to bring the prayer group to us, where ever we were. I guess he thought he was some sort of second-coming-of-Jesus prophet. That was freaking uncomfortable. He left shortly afterwards. I don't know if he was "moved along" or he felt sullied working with unbelievers.

Too bad you won't say "goodbye!". This is another example of s*** floats to the top in government, military and business.

"Native email" means BlackBerry Messenger...

You could *always*run, gmail, yahoo mail, or any of the web mail clients on day one. The browser is/was powerful enough and flash compliant enough to "just work". No need for some stooge to write a custom app just to access your standard websites (and charge you $0.99 or more)... unlike another fruity vendor. In fact, several websites need to remove the PlayBook browser from their "mobile device" list and allow it to access the standard desktop-targetted site. This tablet is capable of rendering it without customization.

The various iPad app devs don't want you to know that. Their income is predicated on Apple continuing to fail to deliver a device capable of accessing the entire web. While Apple continues to deliver crippled hardware, they tie their users ever more tightly to cash-cow called the iStore. It's time for consumers to break free. Buy Android or other devices that DON'T lock you into the closed marketing machine.