Smokescreen makes Flash content visible on iPhone and iPad (video)

Chris Smoak's Smokescreen does exactly what it says: enable Flash content to play on Apple's iPod touch, iPhone, and iPad. Sort of. Here's how Smokescreen gets around using a Flash plugin as described by Simon Willison:

NBC and Time Warner inform Apple they'll be sticking to Flash

When the iPad bandwagon was launched in late January, ABC and Netflix quickly jumped onboard with tailor-made apps, while CBS and others started transitioning their content to HTML5-compliant formats, all in the name of not being left behind by the revolution. As it turns out, however, some content providers will be letting this ride pass them by, at least for the moment. The New York Post today reports that big media heavyweights Time Warner and NBC Universal have turned their noses up at the iPad's high entry demands and will be sticking to what works:

Sources said several large media companies, including Time Warner and NBC Universal, told Apple they won't retool their extensive video libraries to accommodate the iPad, arguing that such a reformatting would be expensive and not worth it because Flash dominates the Web.

According to the NYP article, these conglomerates have been emboldened by the forthcoming arrival of competing tablets from the likes of Dell and HP, and will be seeking their fortunes in the mobile space atop Adobe's winged stallion of web domination that we commonly know as Flash. This is a decision sure to end in tears -- we just don't know who'll be doing the crying when it all shakes out. 

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Flash 10.1 on Froyo goes tete-a-tete with Flash Lite 4 on Eclair: butter vs. stutter (video)

The newly-upgraded Nexus One isn't the first Android smartphone to have Adobe Flash video capability, nor even the first to play said content on a 1GHz Snapdragon CPU.  

Europe's had the HTC Desire since April, which sports a little something called Flash Lite even on the older Android 2.1 OS. Will frozen yogurt outperform puff pastry on its home turf? Find out in a video showdown after the break. 

Android Froyo Flash Player Demo

Preview of Flash Player 10.1 running on Android 2.2 powered devices. Available in Public beta from the Android Market on devices running the latest version of the OS.


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Android 2.2 will invite you to visit 'Flash-enabled' sites, rub Apple's nose in it

TechCrunch is reporting that the latest version of Android, the one with the 450 percent performance improvement and smooth Flash playback,  will, upon updating, guide you to visit a selection of Flash-enabled websites. Countering Apple's list of iPad-ready (aka Flash-free) websites, this is clearly intended as a showcase of the Adobe software's capabilities. Still, a sizable number of the sites on the list are "mobile optimized," meaning you won't be hitting their full desktop versions (which doesn't quite mesh with the idea of "the full web experience"), but it's still likely to cause some consternation over in Cupertino. All I'm wondering now is how much Adobe had to pay up to ensnare such a prominent promo position, but things like that don't stay secret for long.


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Flash 10.1 running on Android 2.2 using a Nexus One

Here is a video of flash 10.1 running on Android 2.2 Froyo using a Nexus One, seems to run very nicely indeed and smoothly.

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