From: "John Beamish" 

Jumping in here with a related thought:

Why can't my cellphone double as a remote control for my tv, dvd, etc.?


On Tue, 22 May 2007 01:57:54 -0400, Ad
 wrote:

>
>>    My dumb
> remote control that came with my TV has a general purpose
>> CPU.  Is that a PC too?  I think not.  Form factor makes a significant
>> difference just like I/O capability and capacity.
>>
>
> Indeed & now smartphones are getting the IO & capacity of PC'es of only
> a few years ago & then you oddly didn't have a problem with calling
> machines of that capacity PC'es.
>

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