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A close friend of mine from RIM told me they came pretty close to doing it. But dropped the idea due to certain limitations/challenges 70% in.

Sounds plausible.They couldn't get email to work on the playbook when it was first released. I still have a hard time wrapping my head about how rigid an architecture must be to tie email to a specific device but it seems to be the way they've designed their systems.

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