We weren't far off...

Our second most popular news story of 2011 was news that the BBC had launched a beta version of its iPlayer for iPad. The news broke back in May.

The desktop version of iPlayer uses Adobe Flash technology, but due to Apple's reluctance to allow Flash on the iPhone, the BBC created an iPhone compatible version of iPlayer that uses QuickTime. The announcement of iPlayer for iPad came as no big surprise, as the BBC has committed to bringing the service to as many platforms as possible. That said, the iPad version of iPlayer is still in beta seven months later...