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Re: Playbook 2.0

Alan Baker
SubjectRe: Playbook 2.0
FromAlan Baker
Date02/24/2012 22:53 (02/24/2012 13:53)
Message-ID<alangbaker-779B75.13530124022012@news.shawcable.net>
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In article <fd54708b-063e-43c1-ab1f-24d210ce1d53@gw9g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>, -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com>wrote:

-hh
On Feb 24, 7:15?am, Nashton <n...@na.ca>wrote:

Nashton
And the iPad won't play anything related to Flash, a real technology, used by the majority of web sites.

-hh
Even setting aside the observation that many websites have developed flash-free mobile sites, the claim that the iPad won't run flash is only correct when one purposefully chooses to constrain to just Apple's original OEM software.

However, when one opens up to just the Apple iTunes Store, there is flash support. For example:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/puffin-web-browser/id406239138?mt=8

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photon-flash-web-browser-app/id430200224?mt=8

Plus there's also OnLive that was just in the press today, which is a different kind of service model...it provides access to a PC render farm to perform all sorts of heavy lifting and then the screen output is streamed as video to the iPad. This opens up the whole compatibility to Flash (and other codecs) question to be: "Everything That Can Be Run on Windows". Time will tell if it proves as useful as the early reviews are suggesting.

http://www.sci-tech-today.com/news/OnLive-Brings-Office--Flash-to-iPad/story.x html?story_id=12000EO283Y0

Imagine that:

Nicolas claims he's even-handed and objective about all this stuff...

...but he hadn't bothered to do his homework.

-)

-- "The iPhone doesn't have... ...well, since Edwin seems to have finally crawled away for good, I guess I'll let him off the hook