05-31-2009, 05:28 PM
Bimwad wrote:
The killer app for a television is always going to be video content, whether broadcast, streamed, or played back from another medium. Jobs has made his feelings about the passive "idiot box" aspect of television well known.
It's not using widgets to get stock quotes, the weather, or locate the closest restaurant, gas station, or public transit stop is from one's current location, nor making phone calls or texting. Though admittedly crude, the widgets included with TVs now wouldn't be any more useful even if they were actually executed properly.
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Wow, you can be a real bimwad sometimes :-)
In addition to all these uses, it would also function as (drumroll . . .)
a TV!
Good reminder of why I usually avoid rumors threads-- someone always grabs onto one point and passionately discounts all other possibilities to try to drive it home. More fun when it's about something, like N. Korea or health care reform.