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Could iPhone 5 destroy productivity?

OMG! IPHONE 5 POST!

I know, I know. I deserve punishment. But it's not gratuitous. If you follow the "smartphone wars" you know that iPhone 4S has sold in the kajillions (yeah, it's a word) and that iPhone 4S users are sucking up all the available planetary mobile bandwidth and that iPhone users in general, and iPhone 4S users, in particular, unlike their Android counterparts, appear to be using their device for everything. It is never off, never put away.

Darrell Eterhington claims that the next iPhone, possibly the next (major) iOS release, will have Facebook baked in.

Apple has apparently re-introduced code references to Facebook integration to the most recent iOS 5.1 beta that were once present in pre-release software but later removed. It doesn’t mean we’ll necessarily see Apple include Facebook sign-in at the system level, as it’s done with Twitter, but it definitely makes it more likely than before.

Can you imagine how many updates, photos and videos, probably also game activity, will occur once iOS and Facebook work at the system level?

This actually worries me a bit.