http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/ Engadget Comments for Artefact puts Flash on your iPad 'In A Pinch' (video) http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/Jun 11th 2010 6:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/
Wait.... why didn't Adobe think of this???]]>Jun 11th 2010 6:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/So... Its basically the same thing as SkyFire on Android?]]>Jun 11th 2010 7:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/Because is way too complicated and the bandwidth requirements would be insane.]]>Jun 11th 2010 7:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/
why would Adobe waste precious resources trying to make a workaround just for Apple? Froyo already supports full flash and WP7 will do so in the future, thats 2 major mobile platforms.]]>Jun 11th 2010 7:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/Jun 11th 2010 7:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/
@Kamil R You are right]]>Jun 11th 2010 7:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/
Given the big stink they've made over the issue, I would think they would do anything to have access to 80 million iphone owners... it's all about the $$$...]]>Jun 11th 2010 7:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/I appreciate Google letting us have flash, but the beta release just goes to show it was never meant for mobiles.
I want flash replaced with stuff that performs better and doesn't require years of work just to make it compatible with a new platform.
I feel like spending all this time trying to force flash to work with new technology is a bit of a waste.
I know there isn't a full replacement for flash yet, but I don't like the idea of working so hard to support something that is, lets face it, a dying technology. ]]>Jun 11th 2010 7:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/
well I was talking about full flash support and flash lite is basically just a dumbed down version. But yeah thats still better than having no flash support.

Adobe also said thats its working on bringing full flash to blackberry, symbian and webOS also. So that covers all the platforms.]]>Jun 11th 2010 7:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/
Flash can be optimized for mobile. Froyo just proved that. Its just that flash currently dominates the market and hence Adobe has no inclination to get off their asses and actually make it work better on mobile devices.

]]>Jun 11th 2010 7:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/Jun 11th 2010 7:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/
Why would Adobe go through the pain of creating all that layers just for making flash run on iDevices? Flash already runs on those devices and there are like more than 100 apps in app store created using flash i.e. before their announcement of banning apps created with 3rd party tools. It is just that flash are blocked. All these alternative techniques can only help those desperate few to see something crawling that was done in flash but nothing more. ]]>Jun 11th 2010 7:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/This is completely the _wrong_ approach to getting flash content on the iphone os. The source code to make a flash player is available -- why doesn't Adobe or someone else just make a flash plugin for jail broken devices? That alone would encourage even the dumbest of users to jailbreak and would be a big "screw you" to apple as well...lock down your platform? That's fine, hackers ftw.]]>Jun 11th 2010 7:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/They did! In fact Apple told them to make their own browser app for flash websites, and Adobe didn't do it because they couldn't come up with anything good. It's taken them this long to get something almost satisfactory for Android.]]>Jun 11th 2010 7:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/Jun 11th 2010 7:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/
I really do think Adobe has had it too good for too long, and now they're reaping the seeds they've sewn. As was mentioned, all they're missing out on is 80 million users, and all we're missing out on is a platform that is buggy, full of exploits and dog slow even on a powerful machine.]]>Jun 11th 2010 8:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/Jun 11th 2010 8:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/
that does not mean that the platform is flawed. Remember that Flash currently has no competition except from Silverlight. HTML5 currently has a long way to go b4 its useful for anything other than video and I have no idea what Microsoft is doing with Silveright (I am yet to see Silverlight used anywhere except Netflix).

So Jobs refusal to allow flash on his mobile platform has actually done more good than harm for us, its made Adobe actually make flash better and bring it to more mobile devices.

And plz stop with the rhetoric that Flash is buggy,crap etc. With properly written apps you wont even notice that its running. ]]>Jun 11th 2010 9:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/
you ain't lying. Try going to the Nike site. ARG!
]]>Jun 12th 2010 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/Cloud Browse already does this, and just as badly. But it's free on the app store, and it does allow you browse flash menus.]]>Jun 12th 2010 1:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/You're biased are you?
Learn to respect other ppl's opinion then others will do respect yours.
Criticizing the guy's brain because he didn't like flash for mobile calling him an Apple fanboy? Well he turned out to be an Android user and you are the fanboy


]]>Jun 12th 2010 1:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/
That is the most disgraceful software project management effort I have ever seen.

And once again the Mac platform gets shat on with a release that is bugger than 10.0 and still doesn't have hardware acceleration.]]>Jun 12th 2010 4:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/
Yeah, the bandwidth requirements are huge but the ISP who is pushing the content down should be the one to handle it like they do with image content over 3G. However, my guess is AT&T are pretty happy with the blocking of Flash transfers over 3G entirely so that people checking 100kbytes of news aren't also downloading 500-1000kbytes of ads on top.

I don't miss Flash one bit and the irony is that people complaining about it being missing probably use Click2Flash or some Firefox Flash blocker on the desktop. It's funny how Flash has been reviled for years as being a CPU and bandwidth hog by Windows, Mac and Linux users consistently, how it's a closed platform, buggy, unstable and insecure. These things haven't changed, just improved a little.

Oh but now Flash is a feature Apple don't have so all of a sudden it's the one thing that means people will get an Android phone and not an iPhone. Please, it's just another desperate cry for help from people who are so insecure about the success of a company they hate without any rational justification.

I won't ever get a Mac because it can't run AutoCAD even though I don't know how to use AutoCAD
I won't get a Mac because there aren't many games despite the fact I have an XBox or PS3 anyway
I won't ever get an iPhone because it can't play Farmville even though I never play mobile games, least of all Flash games
I won't ever get an iPod because it doesn't support the proprietary audio format WMA that I use but an open format AAC, which I think is Apple's proprietary equivalent

It's just one excuse after another in a long list.

Flash sucks, always has, always will and it needs to go. HTML 5 devs need to step up quick smart.]]>Jun 12th 2010 11:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/Flash 10.1 works GREAT on my phone. It's pretty much flawless. I'm using a Droid. The fact that yours isn't running well says two possible things. EIther you have an old crap spec'd phone, or you don't know how to hack worth of crap. ]]>Jun 12th 2010 2:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/
I guess you don't realize that if you created the same app in Flash and HTML5/Javascript, the HTML5 version would run almost 3 times slower. It's a fact, and people who are actually educated about the 2 technologies admit this on both sides.]]>Jun 12th 2010 10:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/Jun 11th 2010 6:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/Jun 11th 2010 6:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/Jun 11th 2010 7:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/Jun 11th 2010 6:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/Jun 11th 2010 6:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/Lol, I see what you did there. ]]>Jun 11th 2010 7:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/I think the existence of stuff like this is exactly why I wouldn't want to own one.

Devs should be working on bringing additional features to a product, not features that should have been present.]]>Jun 11th 2010 7:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/Jun 11th 2010 8:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/Until it either gets more features or drops below $500, I'm pretty sure I'm not getting an iPad unless it's a gift. :) Usually people don't buy something unless they feel it is of value to them for the price that is being charged.]]>Jun 11th 2010 8:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/Jun 12th 2010 1:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/Jun 11th 2010 6:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/Jun 11th 2010 7:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/Jun 11th 2010 6:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/Plus you'd need a lot of servers if you plan on having a thousands of people use it at the same time.]]>Jun 11th 2010 7:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/Jun 11th 2010 7:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/Jun 11th 2010 7:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/Jun 11th 2010 7:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/Jun 11th 2010 7:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/Jun 11th 2010 7:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/
A big company that has spent lots of money generating Flash content could seamlessly divert traffic for iDevices to this system and continue to get value out of that existing content. That buys them time during the transition (however long that might be) to HTML5 and beyond.]]>Jun 11th 2010 8:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/Jun 12th 2010 10:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/Jun 11th 2010 7:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/Which one?]]>Jun 12th 2010 4:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/
I'm not sure yet. Maybe an Asus Eee Pad.]]>Jun 12th 2010 4:50AM