QuickTime Creator Brings Flash and Office To the iPad, By Subscription 118
New submitter adycarter writes "Steve Perlman, the man responsilbe for QuickTime and WebTV, has recently launched OnLive Desktop which now offers a 'plus' service enabling iPad users to use Flash, Microsoft Office and the ability to use a Gigabit-speed version of Internet Explorer. The service runs on the same basic technology as their game streaming service in that you're using your iPad as client to access a machine located in the cloud."
This has been going for a while (Score:3, Insightful)
This has been going for a while, and one might argue that remote sessions are not a new thing by any stretch of the imagination, but it's certainly a useful service if you need it - especially for Office apps.
Word on the grapevine is that Microsoft are working on a native iPad app (or suite of apps) for Office, however - better late than never for those who want to be able to do more than just view Office formats on a tablet.
(and yes, yes, tablets suck for real work, yadda yadda, no one is using them for real work, toy os etc etc - just heading off that stuff at the pass.)
Re:Thanks (Score:4, Insightful)
What, people who use sarcasm?
Oh, you didn't get it.
My sympathies.
(note: possible sarcasm in post. YMMV. void where prohibited)
fixing a problem I didn't know I had (Score:4, Insightful)
and adding injury to insult: charging for the privilege.
In 21 months of iPad-use I've noticed the lack of flash perhaps five times.
On the other hand: it saved me from annoying adds about a gazillion times.
No thanks, I'll pass this one.
Privacy? (Score:4, Insightful)
People are quick to jump on Google because they track your searches and can follow you with their ad engine, so I'm surprised that no one mentioned the privacy implications of this service. This opens up a whole new world of trackability (likely more even than Amazon's Silk browser) - running MSIE in a hosted server session gives the provider visibility into everything you do in that browser - everytime you scroll a page, every time you zoom in, every text box you fill in (even if you leave the page without submitting), all of that is trackable.