New app plans to one-up Facebook on iPad using Flash

Facebook only recently updated its app to perform on Apple's iPad, but it's still missing lots of of your functions of its desktop counterpart. An upcoming app aims to modify that.

iSwifter, the startup that at the moment offers a standalone browser app for the iPad that will stream Adobe Flash content material, plans to launch a new app next month tailored specifically for Facebook customers.
The app, referred to as theWorx, gives customers a way to view Facebook's news feed, photographs, events, and notifications just like they would on the social networking giant's own app. On the other hand the genuine draw is that the app can stream games and applications.
iSwifter's place these inside a standalone section it calls the App Hub, which displays "all" of Facebook's games inside a searchable database. These games might be played ideal inside the app using iSwifter's streaming technologies, something users can not do in Facebook's iPad app, or by accessing the social network in Apple's Safari.
"Our purpose will be to have all the attributes Facebook presents, as well as the ones it doesn't like games," iSwifter's Co-Founder Rohan Relan stated in an interview with CNET.
Relan says that users will also be capable of spend their Facebook credits inside the app. This will not go through Apple's in-app buy method, and as an alternative relies on customers to manage that information from Facebook's Internet website.
Similar to its existing browser application, users will really need to purchase the capability to stream games. Relan said the organization hasn't set a cost on this yet, but that it will be equivalent to the $4.99 for the one-time acquire option in its Net browser app. The business also plans to generate money by selling its own advertisements that will sit on the correct side of games, considerably how they appear on Facebook.
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Start-up aims to stream Flash games to iPads

Behind the scenes, iSwifter runs Flash games and applications on the company's servers, then streams them towards the iPad. This cuts out the have to have Adobe's mobile Flash player plug-in installed--something Apple doesn't let, and that Adobe has ceased development on. Competing browsers like Skyfire and Photon have approached the limitation with similar streaming solutions.
The company's current app currently supplies a strategy to play a variety of social games from Facebook, and far more recently Google+. Last year the corporation said it was operating on a similar app for Apple's OS X platform, although in accordance with Relan that's presently been place on hold.
The upcoming app comes at a time when Facebook is below pressure to shore up its mobile efforts. In an amended version of its S-1 filing earlier this month, the social networking giant noted that an increasing number of its users were accessing the web page on mobile devices where the firm has less marketing. iSwifter's app could absolutely be a threat to that, although it could also bolster income Facebook brings in from its virtual currency system.
Here's a video of how the app will look depending on a current development build. It launches in June.