[opendtv] Re: Comment: Complexity bites Apple, puts reputation at stake

  • From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 16:53:34 -0500

Craig Birkmaier wrote:

> The real question I would ask is why would you want to jailbreak an
> iPad, other than to prove it can be done.

One obvious reason is to run Flash Player. Although most TV networks seem 
willing to fall in line with Apple's wishes, at least one, NBC, has changed its 
mind wrt full length episodes. So iPads that run Flash would not have to be 
constrained.

> The additional screen real estate and features of the iPad may well
> lead to some new applications that will solve a few problems that
> have slowed the long anticipated convergence of the big screen TV in
> the family room with the Internet and computing in general.

Seems to me that the iPad is similar to a laptop, in that it's a personal 
interactive device, much more compatible with Internet style interactive 
activity. The large screen TV in the family room is for a different user 
experience, much more like movie theaters. Whether the iPad offers enough user 
control or not I wouldn't know, not being into these personal toys much at all.

Bert
 
 
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