Run Photoshop on an iPad with VMWare's AppBlast

VMWare is hosting its VMWorld 2011 event in Copenhagen later on this month, but the company's blog has posted a preview of what it'll be revealing. And one of the projects in particular is quite interesting: Project AppBlast purports to turn non-HTML based applications (like those currently running on your Mac) into HTML 5 apps. If this works as described, you could essentially run any or all of your applications on any device with a browser on it -- which of course would include your iPad and iPhone.

You can see a screenshot of the service above. VMWare promises it will provide access to all of your apps from the cloud, which is obviously an intriguing proposition. We'll have to see exactly how it all works once it's all revealed. VMWorld 2011 starts up on October 18.

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Source: http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/2011/08/vmworld-2011-introducing…

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Project AppBlast purports to turn non-HTML based applications (like those currently running on your Mac) into HTML 5 apps

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AGVirt

There is another option (already on the market) for accessing Windows apps and VMware View virtual desktops from HTML5 browsers. Ericom AccessNow is an already released pure HTML5 RDP client that enables users with a variety of devices to connect to any RDP host, including Terminal Server (RDS Session Host), physical desktops or VDI virtual desktops – and run their applications and desktops in a browser.

Ericom‘s AccessNow does not require Java, Flash, Silverlight, ActiveX, or any other underlying technology to be installed on end-user devices – an HTML5 browser is all that is required.

For more info, and to download a demo, visit:
http://www.ericom.com/html5_rdp_client.asp?URL_ID=708

November 03 2011 at 1:37 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ciaran James Murphy

Of course it's doesn't turn applications into HTML... the short-cuts of the app launcher may well to HTML, but it's hardly surprising that a virtualization company would release a browser front end for their product. I think we've all seen marketing people headline the latest buzzword before , even when the link might be tenuous.

October 04 2011 at 3:48 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Rick Ludwig

Okay, not as exciting as first thought, but neat anyway. It doesn't actually turn the app into HTML5, it runs the app from a server through the browser. It's virtualization (somewhat like running Photoshop on your iPad via VNC, except you're running VNC to VMWare's servers.

Interesting, but useless unless you have constant connectivity. I still want an iPad-native version of One Note (though this could be an interesting way to run it on the iPad and the Mac).

October 03 2011 at 3:55 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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thelee

if that's the case, why not just use logmein?

October 03 2011 at 7:12 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

I think this is great. It solves a nagging issue of selecting apps that only work for certain devices. In the enterprise space, business doesn't work that way and they have device sprawl without standards. So...who needs standards when AppBlast serves any App to any device! I like this. Does it potentially make Apple more dominant too? I saw they are currently 11% of the NASDAQ value right now!!!
GJ

October 04 2011 at 1:39 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply