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Does Angry Birds run on the Playbook? I bought a Gtablet (display sucks, but otherwise a powerful device). First thing anyone does when they try it out is to look for Angry Birds.

I'm getting the feeling the Playbook's selling point is "We don't need a youtube app, you can just browse YouTube inline!"

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I don't watch YouTube much, but that feature of inline YouTube is surprisingly valuable. I switched to a different browser on my iPad (iCab Mobile) that supports it and the experience is markedly better.

However, listening to a singer repeat "Flash" over and over does absolutely nothing to make me want a Playbook. I run into flash problems one a week at most; I'll glady trade it for battery life, performance, and stability.

"A singer"?

That's not just "a singer".

It's Freddie Mercury himself.

That's the subtly bad part about the music. The commercial is so ineffective and off-target that RIM is managing to drag down one of the legends of rock with another kind of rock: the Playbook.

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