![]() ![]() The problem was that we came to see this new device first and foremost as a phone with a few added features. Apple first released the iPhone and then announced the almost identical but phoneless iPod Touch. The momentousness of this event was lost, I think, because Apple made a mistake in its release of the latest iPods in the US. It arrived with the latest iPod and its off shoot, the iPhone. Or as Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams blogged: "When you have a web browser in your pocket, a printed newspaper is redundant." Also here, Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger has speculated about newspapers' iPod moment, which he foresees arriving with the emergence of "a relatively mass-market device on which reading a newspaper (and watching it and listening to it) will seem quite normal". Then TV will face the upheaval music has barely survived. ![]() In these pages, internet parent Vint Cerf wondered when television would reach its iPod moment - that is, the time when we download video more than we sit watching broadcasts. ![]()
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