Originally Posted by
DenverBrian
Is the criteria here what's easy or what saves lives?
By your logic, it's incredibly easy to just require that no one use laptops or tablets until 10,000 feet. Or at all.
I think that would be the prudent thing to do - at least during taxi (since FAs can't really check right before takeoff), takeoff and landing. It is clear and simple to enforce.
Unfortunately, the cat is out of the bag so this won't happen until after a bad incident where these things cause big casualties.