invisibleSHIELD case for iPad“Apple’s move to ban Adobe Flash from its iOS has opened a huge window for any technology that can deliver a top-notch multimedia experience on the iPad and other Apple gadgets,” Colin Gibbs reports for GigaOM. “Porn purveyors are starting to tilt the balance in favor of HTML5.”

“Increasingly, it looks like HTML5 will inherit the torch from Flash. The emergence of HTML5 is largely being spurred by the iPad and its big, high-resolution screen, which offers a far more immersive (read: porn-friendly) experience than any handset can deliver,” Gibbs reports. “So adult sites are moving quickly to re-encode their video content for the new, video-friendly device. YouPorn.com announced a few weeks ago that it’s targeting iPad users by re-encoding its entire video archive in HTML5.”

Gibbs reports, “Mobile porn has never found much of a market here in the U.S. thanks to carrier prohibitions and handsets that make for poor platforms to view it. The rise of the iPad will change that, though, providing an easy way for users to access adult content online wherever they are. And there’s no question that demand for online porn is immense: the worldwide adult web industry has an estimated value of $37.2 billion. The rise of the iPad will only fuel that fire.”

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