Despite Apple’s aversion to Flash and Steve Jobs’ caustic comments like “Flash is a battery drainer”, Lida Tang, a 32 years old, Boston based developer has worked his way around this Flash-Apple rivalry to come up with a program called Cloud Browse that enables you to view websites with Flash content on your iPhone and iPad with a twist; Cloud Browse runs the browsers on a remote desktop machine and not on your iPhone.
Let’s look at how it’s done. All you have to do is to download the free Cloud Browse App, install it on your Apple device and direct it to the website featuring flash content. Then the fun part starts.
According to alwaysontechnologies.com, “Cloud Browse doesn’t use a scaled down web browser. Instead, a full desktop browser is running remotely and being streamed to the iPhone/iPod Touch. The remote browser has access to higher bandwidth, more memory and faster processor than that of any mobile device. Cloud Browse runs the browsers on a remote machine and not on your iPhone so there is no need to worry about websites grabbing your private information or leaving a trail of your browsing history”.
Meaning that you think that you’re watching Flash videos directly on your iPhone when actually you’re not!
Cloud Browse has already been approved by Apple and is available for free up till now but Tang is talking about bringing its paid version pretty soon.
Talk about a silver lining in the “clouds”…
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Sadly, a lot of mobile phones are averse to Flash, which is really confounding to me! Flash support should make any phone stand out. I don’t really care if it is a battery drainer.
Thanks for this heads up, I’d check Cloud Browse out.
Keep posting stuff like this i really like it
Hi Corrin:
I would agree that Flash support is very important, especially now that mobile phones are used to access the Internet even at high speeds using HSDPA networks. Take heart, though, it seems that Flash 10 will appear in most smartphones that are to be released within the year or the next.
And here’s to wishing that Apple incorporates Flash inherently into future iPhone incarnations!
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