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Apple Approves Web Browser For iPhone That Plays Flash Video, Kind Of

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This week Apple approved a web browser for their app store that promises to play Flash video.  The browser, called SkyFire, doesn’t play Flash video directly, rather it jumps through some hoops to enable Flash video playback in iPhones. Since Apple mobile devices don’t support Flash and likely never will, SkyFire gets around this by transcoding Flash videos in real-time to the H.264...