I think 95% of us here would agree there are a lot of things out
there that may not look like a computer (Screen, keyboard etc.) but
are in reality computers.
My simple MP3 player is a computer. Anything that has a type of CPU
is processing commands and carrying out instructions is a computer.
Writers make a mistake when they use their own definition of what
something is, and then use that definition to write an article.
Here is wikipedia's definition: A computer is a programmable machine
that receives input, stores and manipulates data, and provides output
in a useful format.
From that definition the category is pretty broad.
Stewart
At 10:45 PM 2/16/2010, you wrote:
The iPad does, in fact, have a keyboard, regardless of what the
cited article says. If it is not a computer, then what is it? Is an
iPhone, or other "smart phones" as they are called, computers as well?
I'd say yes, most assuredly. If my Timex/Sinclair was a computer,
then the aforementioned must surely be computers as well.
Perhaps the makers of smaller mobile devices such as the iPad and
"smart phones" do not like to refer to those products as being
computers because of perception and marketing issues.
Steve
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