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Originally Posted by govprog View Post
iPhone users can get adobe flash playback with a 3rd party browser(i.e:skyfire). The mentioned internet browser also enables android users to play silverlight content.(e.g:NetFlix,IMDb and etc.) In addition, they said that it's likely that they will start porting their browser into Meego platform. Even if they don't, users could still get flash playback by installing Firefox. So to say that a platform does support flash content and another one does not is a certain misguide mostly caused by company ads like google (and others)
It is not that simple. Skyfire converts Flash content to HTML5 so that it can be displayed, but this is done remotely by special servers. I guess I don't need to mention how different this is from native Flash support.
 

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