One of the biggest concerns regarding the iPad was that it couldn’t play Flash, which would have resulted in a poor web browsing experience and in playing only dull games. Anyway, Apple fans got used to not having Flash on their devices, so everything seemed to be in order, if we were to look at the millions iPads sold in a couple of months or at the million iPhone 4 phones sold in the launch day.
However, creativity never sleeps: if you’re willing to jailbreak your iPad, you can enjoy Flash applications, even if there are voices claiming Flash is already outdated and developers should be encouraged to code in HTML5.
This is a demo video which shows how Spirit jailbreak managed to port the mobile Flash Android plugin to Apple’s iOS and how Frash enables Flash content to play on the iPad.
It’s all good, but I have a question for iPad owners: would you jailbreak your device or not?
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This is great, I thought that this is not possible. Apple don’t like flash and no enable flash sounds great plus for iPad.
I don’t think I would jailbreak my iPhone 4 or my iPad. I don’t feel the need for Flash that much. However, it’s true that I’m not interested in playing computer games, so I can somehow understand the frustration of people who are fans of such Flash-based games.
I wouldn’t jailbreak my iPad either. I don’t use it so much for browsing websites. I rather check my email, my Facebook page and I use Skype a lot. No need for Flash for these ones.
no i would never jailbreak my ipad because i am not even check my emails,facebook and other sites..mostly i use skype..so there is no need for flash…
thanks for it..
sarah..
I have tried to jailbreak my phone 45 times at the program always quits unexpectedly.
thanks
simon
Well I never interested in playing game but this is an advance feature that will allow us to perform different operations and will make web browsing interesting.
Since 90% of websites have Flash content, and nearly all non YouTube hosted video is delivered in Flash, I see over and over iPad users shouting at their device because they can’t surf the web on it. And I am one of them. In fact when I go on a presentation I always bring along my laptop, not my iPad because I know the MacBook will be needed if I am asked to “go online” and see something. My iPad is pretty much a toy that entertains me on flights.