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by
Anonymous Coward
on Wednesday December 31, @07:00PM (#77)
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From Register Hardware [reghardware.co.uk]:
If you don't understand what Apple's iPad is all about, think of it this way: it's a portable TV.
You think we jest? Consider. What we call a TV has long become divorced from its original function: to receive and display broadcast pictures. The process of separation began in the 1980s when we started watching pre-recorded tapes on our VCRs, but is now reaching its peak.
Today, we display content from games consoles, disc players, media extenders that pull content off network-attached storage, videos from the likes of YouTube, photos stored on memory cards, and, increasingly, general internet sites. BBC iPlayer and its like show that even the programmes themselves no longer need by explicitly associated with the process of broadcast by transmission.
In short, the TV in your living room is no longer a television - it's a general-purpose display system. And that's what the iPad is, only portable.
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