David Li's Random Ideas #2

What's Wrong?

The iPhone OS platform is fast becoming one of the most dominant platforms in the world with the popularity of the iPhone, iPod Touch and now the iPad! However one major flaw that many people have pointed out in the past is that although it supports a wide variety of the most popular web standards such as Javascript and PHP, it does not have the ability to run Flash.

So How Do You Fix It?

So Random Idea #2 is a service that moves the processing of webpages on an iPhone OS device from itself to a server running somewhere else in the world, very much like the Onlive service for video games. This allows the iPhone to run Flash via this remote server and other currently unsupported formats such as Microsoft Silverlight.

How Would You Do It?

You can leverage a cloud computing service to get a server and then create a webpage or app that sends the devices state to the server and relays the rendered page back.

Any Problems?

A major problem would be that 3G speeds would probably not be fast enough for the service and so a wifi connection would probably be needed. There is also the problem that the device itself may not be able to operate fast enough to make the system smooth.

Money.

Monetisation would be very easy on a service like this, either with standard ads or even a premium service with faster speeds.