iView uses Flash. The iPad doesn’t support Flash. It would seem that iView fans wanting to watch VOD on their new iPad have hit a wall. Not so, as Gus over at Lifehacker has pointed out – the ABC has confirmed it’s working on a solution for VOD-hungry Apple tablet fans…
Rather than pursuing an HTML5 version of iView and allowing the VOD service to work as a web app, the ABC is currently developing a native iPad app for iView.
And according to the iView support forum, they’re also working on an iPhone app, although this is a bit harder thanks to the fact that the iPhone and iPod Touch don’t support the same video compression options as the iPad.
[iView via Lifehacker]
matt
Friday, May 14, 2010 at 1:37 PMwhats this? apple having to sign up as an apple developer to use the Apple sdk so as to put an app on the APPLE app store?
no, anti-flash Jobs… it wasn’t business related at all…
whatiris
Friday, May 14, 2010 at 2:20 PMThe ABC is already an Apple developer.
Darius
Friday, May 14, 2010 at 2:37 PMdoes this mean that it will be unmetered (freeview) over wifi if your with iinet?
the current ABC app isnt as far as i know
Sean
Friday, May 14, 2010 at 3:45 PMHopefully a non-flash version will mean it’s easier for other developers to grab the feed. I would love to have iView working effortlessly on my XBMC’d Apple TV.
Nait Dogg
Friday, May 14, 2010 at 7:42 PMABC please do an iPhone app too! The only way I’d buy an iPad is if it supports flash or once web developers move to HTML5 – which isn’t even set to become a standard until 2025. Either way, I think there will be quite a few iPads between now and then.
B
Sunday, May 16, 2010 at 1:50 PMHahah @ Nait Dogg: waiting until 2025, ey? Good luck with that. The rest of us will enjoy our iPad content right now ;)
Sterling
Sunday, July 4, 2010 at 9:07 PMThe ps3 docent use flash for it’s version of iview I don’t think it would be hard I wish they would hurry up, the iPad ABC app sucks except to watch good game. Meh