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

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."

Comments

Thanks

[rjamestaylor]

Thanks for ruining my awesome iPad experience. :)

Re:Thanks

[jo_ham]

What, people who use sarcasm?

Oh, you didn't get it.

My sympathies.

(note: possible sarcasm in post. YMMV. void where prohibited)

Re:Thanks

[hairyfeet]

The sad part is when it comes to Appleites its damned hard to tell anymore. i thought when Jobs passed the RDF would die with him but if anything it has gotten stronger, maybe Cook snuck up on him and sucked out the RDF along with his soul which i hear is gonna be packaged in tiny bits for the iPhone 5. . Oh and just in case anyone thinks I'm picking on Apple let me pick on everyone else, wouldn't want anyone feeling left out ya know..."Do no evil" is "think different' for nerds and is just as pointless, MSFT is so lame they can't even come up with a slogan so allow me "Microsoft: We want to be Apple so bad it hurts" and of course Linux has a slogan but it takes 23 hours with CLI and a handwritten compiler to read it, and you have to be an expert in long PHP coding, did i miss anybody? Well maybe BSD, I'll give them a slogan too, just to show what a nice guy I am "BSD: you're so free you're free not to use it like everybody else. Did we mention Apple used some of our code once?"

But if you want to do sarcasm you got to add that touch of bitter to make it really good, its like nutmeg that way, just a pinch adds just the right flavor. if you are too nice about it without a sarcasm tag people can't tell if you are being sarcastic or have had a koolaid overdose.

Good Enough

[SuperKendall]

For someone who MUST have Flash (almost no-one) this is a perfect compromise.

I'm not sure I'd pay a monthly fee just to view restaurant menus though.

Zombo Com

[Anonymous Coward]

Ever since I got my iPad I was unable to unlock the full potential of Zombocom because of Flash absence. Now I feel like everything is possible again.

Thank you, OnLive.

Re:Zombo Com

[0100010001010011]

HTML5 zombocom/

Re:Zombo Com

[symbolset]

This heresy is not even close to the full Zombocom experience. The audio even stops after a while.

too much, too late

[pbjones]

with people now dropping Flash, and free work-arounds available, a paid Flash experience is doomed. As for Office, if you need it, buy a Macbook Air, or similar. BTW, there are rumours of Office for iPad floating around, and an MS-Works for iPad would sell well, IMHO.

Re:The data cost to use this will be high

[Nerdfest]

Unfortunately, that may be one of the prices that needs to be paid when one chooses a platform where you're not allowed to run anything you want. It also may turn out that some of the services like this will actually speed up the experience, like with Opera mini. Anything heavy on processing and light on moving graphics will be much faster run like this. It may turn out that Office runs faster than it would natively.

he is not responsible for QuickTime

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Oh no

[Anonymous Coward]

He subjected the world to QuickTime and WebTV, and now he's trying to bring Office and Internet Explorer to the iPad? What will he do to us next? This monster must be stopped.

Re:Whom would this benefit?

[Anonymous Coward]

People who have an iPad but not a MacBook Air?

That's like stealing from Apple. Are you a thief?

fixing a problem I didn't know I had

[burne]

and adding injury to insult: charging for the privilege.

In 21 months of iPad-use I've noticed the lack of flash perhaps five times.

On the other hand: it saved me from annoying adds about a gazillion times.

No thanks, I'll pass this one.

Privacy?

[hawguy]

People are quick to jump on Google because they track your searches and can follow you with their ad engine, so I'm surprised that no one mentioned the privacy implications of this service. This opens up a whole new world of trackability (likely more even than Amazon's Silk browser) - running MSIE in a hosted server session gives the provider visibility into everything you do in that browser - everytime you scroll a page, every time you zoom in, every text box you fill in (even if you leave the page without submitting), all of that is trackable.

3GB CAP = 1 hour

[Joe_Dragon]

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

Talk about giving credit where it's not due

[tyrione]

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.