One of the biggest complaints people seem to have about Apple devices is the fact that they do not support playback of flash content out of the box. Fortunately there is now an easy way to watch flash video on any iOS device you like. Unfortunately this does not support flash gaming, but with the thousands of games available for iOS in the app store, this isn't really a big problem.
All you need to do is download and install the browser "skyfire" for your device. This browser allows flash content to be converted as you play it unlike the iPhone's default browser Safari. More information can be found here. You will notice that Skyfire is meant to cost £2, but can obviously be acquired free via the usual way for those of you with a jailbroken device.
As a quick review, for the brief time I have spent using it, Skyfire isn't close to replacing Safari for me as the default browser on my iPhone. I don't think it is as polished and nor does it look as nice. In my opinion, it is a good option to have however when you stumble upon some flash content that you wish to play on your device.
It is worth noting that when used to load the YouTube website, the browser still opens the videos via Qucktime in the same way Safari does. To open flash videos, all you do is tap the video button in the bottom left hand corner of the screen when you are on a page with a video embedded.
For those of you waiting for iOS devices to support flash natively, I would suggest not bothering as at this point I would be extremely surprised if Apple ever included flash as a feature of one of their devices. Apples opinion of flash can be seen here for those of you that are interested.
Let me know what you think of Skyfire in the comments below!
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