Are you still suffering without flash? Express review of Flash browsers for iPhone and iPad

I welcome you, habrazhiteli and habrachiteli!



The world is designed in such a way that since 2007 not a single holivar about the iPhone (since 2010 - and about the iPhone and iPad) has been done without the magic words “Flash support”.
Of all the topics about which they have slandered and holivarily (“MMS support”, “copy / paste” and many others have sunk into oblivion) ​​Flash support has been and remains the main stumbling block.
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In this habratopic will not be disclosed questions:

• why did it happen
• do i need flash at all
• and in% system_name% Flash support is

This question will be revealed in this habratopic:

• How to get Flash support on iPhone and iPad
• how to win holivarah

We only need:

• iPhone or iPad
• Internet access and App Store
• Cydia and jailbreak

The reasons that prompted me to write this topic are as follows.
In the latest Apple vs. Holivar . % reasonable_domain_% I saw the following discussion:

Alaunquirie as a hacker is an example of the “vital necessity” of Flash support on the iPhone / iPad:

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And immediately below, username dimag0g kindly gives an example of a hotel site in Flash:

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This is where my patience ended. Take on the website of the hotel wfs.lu and get access to it using the iPhone \ iPad completely legal methods using the App Store.

Go! Launch the App Store directly on the device and enter into the search:

Puffin

• Cloud browser with Flash support.
• Full Flash support including audio.
• Current version 1.6.1
• Supports iPhone and iPad
• Cost $ 0.99

Result:


We got access to the site, went to the desired item (you need to get to the dots in the Flash-menu) and received information. Quest is over, let's go further.

AlwaysOnPC iPhone Edition / AlwaysOnPC iPad Edition

• Full-fledged virtual machine with a browser, office, Java-machine
• Flash support (no audio promise in future versions)
• Current version 1.6.4
• Separate versions for iPhone and iPad
• Cost $ 24.99 for iPad and $ 19.99 for iPhone

Result:


Access to the site is obtained and Google Chrome in the screenshot does not seem to be - this is really it. The quest is completed, there are flaws - there is no audio (for solving our task it’s not critical, but still), the high cost is for additional features (besides the Flash browser, there is also a whole set of software available). Following!

iSwifter

• OnLive style cloud browser with streaming
• Full Flash support
• Current version 3.0
• Available only on iPad
• The cost of one month of access - $ 2.99, there is a demo access for 7 days

Result:


Access to the site is obtained, the display speed is fast, the disadvantages are the system of paid access to Flash-content by subscription, for an amateur.

findings

You can slander as much as you like, you can give examples of other platforms and devices, you can find more than 9000 flaws in the ways I described for accessing Flash-content using the iPhone (iPod Touch) and iPad - but the output does not change.

Within a few minutes, any (!) Up-to-date iOS device (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch) can legally and quickly get access to Flash-content in the event of such a need. It was an express review and therefore I did not consider in detail the issues of viewing online video in a variety of existing flash players, the download speed and responsiveness of the interfaces in the listed browsers.

This topic is primarily for owners of iOS devices, in whose minds diligent trolls followers of other mobile platforms are trying to instill a sense of inferiority of iOS devices.

I hope I managed to tell you something new and, I hope, useful. Have a nice surfing!