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Artefact brings "Flash in a Pinch" to the iPad
Instead of transcoding the Flash files on your iPad, it sends them up to Artefact's servers, which work their magic remotely (the technical details are available on Artefact's site, for the curious) and send an iPad-readable result back down. Boom! Flash on your iPad, whether Steve Jobs likes it or not. Flash in a Pinch can even react to clicks, which means there's some hope for interactive Flash web apps on the iPad, not just videos.
The problem is that Flash in a Pinch is still wicked slow, because the data has to be uploaded and downloaded from Artefact's servers. Right now, there's not even sound in the proof-of-concept version. I wonder whether one of these Flash alternatives will actually become viable and run smoothly before everyone stops caring about Flash altogether, though.
Check out the video of Flash in a Pinch running Hulu after the jump, and see what you think.
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Subscribe to commentsJamesJun 13th 2010 11:41AM
This sounds an awful lot like the concept behind servers like TVersity: render the Flash, re-encode the output, then stream it to a Flash-less device. I have to wonder two things about this: 1.) could it work on other devices that have a browser but no "proper" Flash (I'm looking at you, PS3), and 2.) would something like TVersity be a better solution for the problem this is really trying to solve?
RawkerJun 13th 2010 4:29PM
IT seems alot like skyfire for WM, which works rater well sometimes. Its not perfect, and can be slow. Its better than nothing though.
Terry BodegaJun 13th 2010 1:00PM
Instead of all the workarounds, how about people simply voting with their wallet and not buying IOS products until Apple listens to them instead of the other way around?
ipxnsvJun 20th 2010 10:12AM
why not use cloud browse? Its free?