Hack Allows Flash Video on iPhone, Touch… With a Catch
When I first saw this I thought “Where have you been all my life?” Then I realized the answer: In 1.x iPhone and iTouch firmware. iMobileCinema is a homebrew app for 1.1.1-1.1.5 firmware and must be installed on jailbroken phones. This tool is all but useless to early adopters who are already into the 2.x version of the firmware but a version that should work with 2.1 is coming soon, according to the website.
The question, then, is whether this app breaks the terms of use? And it does.
This is the type of thing I love to see and why hackers are some of my favorite people. Adobe and Apple for what ever reason have made little effort port Flash to the iPhone. Then you start seeing articles like this and then you start to here about the industry rushing to do it themselves to not miss out on the cash. At this link, read about Adobe developing a flash player specifically for devices like the iPhone: http://digistenz.blogspot.com/2008/11/adobe-arming-flash-for-iphone.html