New York – iPhone
and iPads will finally stream web video in the Adobe Flash format, thanks to an
app appearing on Thursday in Apple’s App Store,
.
Apple said it doesn’t
support Adobe Flash in the iPhone and iPad because the technology drains
batteries too quickly and doesn’t perform well on mobile devices, but the new
$2.99 app from Skyfire gets around the restriction by using Skyfire servers to
translate the video into HTML5, which is supported by the Apple devices.
Skyfire offers a similar app for Android
smartphones. Flash viewing is possible without the app on Android phones using
the Android 2.2 OS.
