Nook Touch Running Adobe Flash 9

Posted on 20 March, 2012 by Nate Hoffelder in e-Reading Hardware // 9 Comments

If you thought it was cool to see the Nook Touch with a fast refresh and then see it play video, you're going to get a kick out of this video.

Here's a proof of concept video showing the Nook Touch running Flash 9. It's from the same guy who showed us a video running on the Nook Touch.

The video doesn't show much (it looks like the NT hardware is barely up to the task), but it does stand as a rather odd milestone. The Nook Touch, a $99 ereader, can now do stuff that the $500 iPad cannot. A hacker, working out of his house, has just counted coup on Apple.

Of course, Apple doesn't care, but it's still fun to see a lowly ereader do things that the vaunted iPad cannot. It's an interesting day.

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7 Comments on Nook Touch Running Adobe Flash 9

Mike Cane // 20 March, 2012 at 11:00 am // Reply
>>>The Nook Touch, a $99 ereader, can now do stuff that the $500 iPad cannot.
I think you’re mistaking “cannot do” for “does not WANT to do.”
- Nate Hoffelder // 20 March, 2012 at 11:22 am // Reply
  The why is not important as the what. The iPad cannot do it and the Nook Touch can.
  - Patrick Friedel // 20 March, 2012 at 11:26 am // Reply
    Flash was hacked into iOS at least as far back as 2010, Nate. Your zealotry is blinding you again.
    - Nate Hoffelder // 20 March, 2012 at 1:04 pm // Reply
      Plus there’s the Skyfire browser and a couple other apps.
  - Gary // 20 March, 2012 at 11:37 am // Reply
    > The why is not important as the what.
    Of course it is. Mike was being polite.
Mike Cane // 20 March, 2012 at 1:17 pm // Reply
Flash is dead anyway. So you’ve got a Nook Touch basically doing zombie tech. I’d be more impressed if he provided proof of the mini vMac emulator working on a Nook Touch. Yeah, that’d be zombie tech too — but cool!
- Nate Hoffelder // 20 March, 2012 at 1:42 pm // Reply
  I posted a request on MobileRead but no one responded it.