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250 or point 65
The electronic devices rule is strictly a money/liability issue.
1) New devices come out daily and the FCC/FAA does not have the funds to check every single device.
2) There is no way to train an FA to recognize which items are approved/unapproved, so its just easier to say everything with an on/off switch needs to be turned off.
I think that the burden of proving that the device doesn't futz with the airborne electrons doing their electron-ing actually rests with the individual operator—and there's just no way Delta's going to bother.