Nook Touch Running Adobe Flash 9
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.
Comments
Mike Cane March 20, 2012 um 11:00 am
>>>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 March 20, 2012 um 11:22 am
The why is not important as the what. The iPad cannot do it and the Nook Touch can.
Patrick Friedel March 20, 2012 um 11:26 am
Flash was hacked into iOS at least as far back as 2010, Nate. Your zealotry is blinding you again.
Nate Hoffelder March 20, 2012 um 1:04 pm
Plus there’s the Skyfire browser and a couple other apps.
Gary March 20, 2012 um 11:37 am
> The why is not important as the what.
Of course it is. Mike was being polite.
Mike Cane March 20, 2012 um 1:17 pm
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 March 20, 2012 um 1:42 pm
I posted a request on MobileRead but no one responded it.
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