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QuickTime Creator Brings Flash and Office To the iPad, By Subscription

Posted by timothy on from the but-then-you-have-to-watch-flash dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Zombo Com by 0100010001010011 · · Score: 4, Informative

    HTML5 zombocom/

  2. he is not responsible for QuickTime by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    He is not the "QuickTime creator". Steve Perlman was a contracted tester on portions of QuickTime. His main claim to fame in that timeframe is that when the people actually responsible for QuickTime (like Bruce Leak) left Apple for elsewhere shortly after it shipped, he stayed behind at Apple.

    He was however a co-founder of Catapult who did the X-Band modem and service as well as founding WebTV as listed here.

  3. 3GB CAP = 1 hour by Joe_Dragon · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/using-onlive-downloads-around-3gb-of-data-per-hour/085785

  4. Talk about giving credit where it's not due by tyrione · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Man who created QuickTime? Really? The guy was gone by 1990. He brought WebTV thanks to Keith Ohlfs and other technologists to a market no one wanted and sold it ironically to Microsoft for bank and that was a write off for them. He's perfect as a VC guy--incubate, hype up, sell for unjustifiable value, dump and repeat.

    From his wiki page: ``In 2011 Perlman announced that he and colleagues at Rearden have invented distributed-input-distributed-output (DIDO) technology, which a Wired article claimed to be "an experimental wireless communications system that could render cellular connections obsolete".

    Someone should shoot the Wired writer for such a bs claim.

    The man's all hype and no results.