This seems to be meant to pressure Qualcomm (stock etc.) more than reality. If true, Apple would simply do it in Apple fashion -- not say an effing word about it until it's ready and then drop it like a bomb on Qualcomm. This seems more intended -- ie. more or less "publicly" announced -- to gain some kind of concessions from Qualcomm.

The Fed. government -- which is bad at basically everything except getting out 10's of millions of SS checks each month -- is qualified to determine how a large tech company should be structured?

So then it just becomes a tax in effect. Probably the intent anyway. CA loves 'em some taxes.

Some old person trying to give their email address to the cashier. As aol@www.www. Or someone with folks behind them loudly spelling out lickmyjizz69@gmail.com. Lol. Yeah this seems âoelike a good ideaâ. Instead cashiers will just type in some bullshit and that person will not get the email. But donâ(TM)t let that stop you CA from putting everyone through a lot of trouble to implement YET ONE MORE RULE.

Robots ain't free.

Most people either keep clean inboxes or messy ones. So if you are one that always has hundreds of emails in your inbox it will perpetually show you are "swamped".

Yeah. After all, RIM's phone's are based on Java, use ARM processors, run apps. Whole world of difference there vs. the other guys. Night and day really.

We use them at work and they are the absolute WORST in terms of reliability. They have not a clue. The support people claim there are no issues even though they drop packets like crazy. Then you get one of the actual techs out on site and talk to them, and they let slip how faulty equipment does not get replaced, etc.

They are looking to sell to current BlackBerry users. That is possible. Winning vs. iOS and Android is not at this point. Given that, I am not sure why this reviewer had so much trouble using the PlayBook with his BlackBerry. I linked mine up just fine. The bridge has a few issues but mostly works well. Other than that, there is a lot to like about the PlayBook. So I'd say the hyperbole in calling it "un-useable" is not justified. I've used the heck out of mine. The web browser alone does a fantastic job.

Would mean this is not even a notable story.

Gets your "trusted" credentials, that would be more damaging, right? Kind of like now -- someone pairing your ss# to your full name is much more dangerous because of the trust factor placed in that. Whereas if they get your Yahoo Mail login they spam all your friends until you close the account or get control of it. I think I would like this to be optional for sure. Let's see how well it works or what a disaster it is before everyone is required to use it to do business with say PayPal -- Google -- etc.

.. When there are services that automate sharing login credentials for accessing one drive by many "users". Sorta like how there are sites that store and give out logins to get around paywalls for new sites. Amazon will have to police this and shut it down immediately. Or else it gives the music industry a possible argument to say that Amazon is facilitating piracy.

... thus giving Apple the *control*. Ironically, Oracle seems to be proving that what Apple has done on the consumer side (closed platform resulting in better end user experience), might also be possible in the enterprise by tight integration of enterprise software and hardware. So maybe Apple should have bought Sun at some point here recently and got a leg up in the enterprise as well.

I disagree. The Comedian's character was pretty convincing in the brutality the R rating allowed. To me that was central in the story.

RIM seems to be doing just fine as well. So then I guess they'd be in the Apple-strategy camp? Closed, and 100% control of the "experience".