It also means that Adobe has finally got its act together and managed to get its bloated runtime to work on vapid mobile devices (although it has taken two Tegra 2 chips to achieve this on the Xoom).
As stats out today from the BBC indicate, tablets are fast becoming a mainstream video consumption platform. Indeed, I've replaced my second TV with the iPad.
The rise of tablets is also likely to accelerate the decline of scheduled and EPG based content, even though these paradigms are used by the BBC in its iPad UI.