@Hiphopopotamus: Nope, if you read the 8 pages of fine print, any ATT customers who already have a smartphone can keep their data plan.

The people rushing to upgrade to the newest and greatest ahead of schedule are probably the same people who eat up the majority of their data capacity. I bet you can't upgrade early without switching over to a non-unlimited data plan.

@kingtj: Well, thats why I admit to not being 100% gung ho about mobile internet - WiFi hotspots are normally 1) an extra cost I don't want to incur, 2) terribly slow or 3) in inconvenient locations for anything productive.

@deiscane: They sold them the trademark... they have a notice up on their website (facetime, not Apple)

@comrade_leviathan: Well that's my other fear - a whole new method of having inane obtrusive discussions in public.

Whoever at Adobe decided today was the day to buy ad space on Gizmodo deserves a raise.

I'm admittedly not the biggest adopter of mobile internet technology, but I think I'm in the same boat as an overwhelming majority of iPhone/iPod/iPad users: If I am somewhere where I can use WiFi to use this feature, I am somewhere where I can do it more easily on a computer.

This reminds me of the ATT 'You Will' ads of yesteryear... which, in retrospect, were eerily accurate.

If you are down by 4, kick it into your own goal.

You'd think they could share a tennis court... frees up space for one of them to make a polo court, or Scrooge McDuck money pool.

@heretrix: I ride the M train, I don't break out any on-train entertainment more valuable than a ball-and-cup toy.

I feel the same rules apply for the iPad as the iPhone on the subway - no motion sensitive games, and it gets put away the moment train traffic gets shoulder to shoulder.

I am voting for Wayne simply so he gets cursed.

Aahh, Mid-March. The NFL Draft is wrapping up, March Madness is halfway over, there's preseason baseball, and maybe the NHL is up to something... who knows. What a fantastic time to catch the attention of the sports crowd.