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I’m gonna have to check that out!
I downloaded an iPad app that allows for use of .RDP and VNC to Windows workstations. It’s called ‘Jump’. Usually I will connect to the VPN at work, and .RDP into my office machine. The iPad handles it fairly well, but the touch screen can be a little clumsy at times over the RDP connection.
Technically, the iPad would not be doing the Flash or the mulkti-tasking, but the Linux box it is accessing.
This is nothing new. Logmein.com has been a $29.99 app for the iPhone/iPod Touch (and presumably iPad) and can do similar for accessing Windows and MacOS boxes.
Regarding Flash ... you better have a VERY fast WIFI connection for that to work, and don’t expect it to work acceptably at all under 3G.
All the hoo-hah you read about how Flash runs on Android fails to mention this little detail. Sure, it "runs," but you can't flick it around with your finger the way you can everything else on the device. Things that don't require user input (like ads) work just fine in Flash on Android, etc. Flash apps that are expecting mouse input... not so much. And that's pretty much everything ever done with Flash except ads. If Adobe were to equip Flash with new messages like "the user has flicked the screen leftward," then people could write new Flash apps that would work on these devices. But the existing body of Flash apps will still not work. The moral of this is, don't get conned into buying a device because there's a Flash app you need and this device "runs" Flash. Not until you see the app demo'ed, and you're sure you can actually use it... as opposed to watching it sit there doing nothing. |
“it can turn Apple’s iPad into an X terminal, allowing it to run Linux, do true multitasking, and even run Flash-based apps.”
The author does not know what the hell he’s talking about.
It does not run Linux or Flash, it creates a remote I/O device, a la screen and [virtual] keyboard, for those. It no more runs those than a monitor & keyboard alone do.
The Linux/Flash programs are running on another computer, remotely accessed. Think “GoToMyPC” for penguins.
This ability has been around for a while now, just like remote access for Windows has been.
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I'm sure that the folks at Adobe are furiously working on this, but right now Flash has no way to deal with touch-based operating systems. It's expecting messages from the OS like "the mouse is over the button" and "the user has clicked the mouse" and "the mouse has moved to coordinate x,y". There is no mouse on phones, or on tablets. Your finger won't work because the device doesn't know where your finger is unless you're pressing on the screen.