“Skyfire launched its app that plays Flash video on the iPhone one day early, but it didn’t expect to pull the app off Apple’s App Store so soon,” David Goldman reports for CNNMoney. “After just five hours on the market on Wednesday, Skyfire stopped selling the app, as its servers were overwhelmed. The company said it was frantically working to increase its server capacity and would be selling another batch of the applications ‘very soon.'”
“‘Skyfire has historically generated high demand for its browser products but nothing like this,’ said Skyfire CEO Jeffrey Glueck in a prepared statement. ‘It was hard to predict consumer demand since this was our first paid app, but we were blown away by the demand and sales.’ [With Skyfore], when users click on a page that contains Flash video, Skyfire’s servers download, render and translate the video into a video standard that Apple’s iOS devices support,” Goldman reports. “Skyfire then displays a thumbnail that users can click on to stream the video from its servers.”
“The app became the top grossing application in Apple’s App Store Wednesday and the third most-downloaded paid app,” Goldman reports. “The company also makes a similar browser for Android devices, which have been downloaded about 1.5 million times since it launched on the Android Marketplace in late April.”
Goldman reports, “The story of Skyfire’s overwhelmed servers is similar to that of Flipboard, a highly anticipated, glowingly reviewed, social media aggregating iPad application that crashed the company’s servers just hours into its debut on the App Store. Flipboard created a waiting list, and it took the company more than a month to get everyone access to the app.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Develop only for Android and your servers are safe. (smirk)
As we said on Tuesday regarding this app: “Enabling incompetent/ignorant/lazy/cheap purveyors of web video is no substitute for having them do it right in the first place. Get with the program: Stop using Flash. 120+ million users can’t see your videos and most aren’t about to pony up $2.99 to a third-party in order to work around your incompetence/ignorance/laziness/cheapness.”
@erk
Your quote:
“…no flash on the iPhone is retarded…”
No flash on iOS isn’t retarded, it’s brilliant. iOS is a mobile platform and all mobile devices are limited by battery power. Consumers want more battery life out of their mobile devices and Flash drains that power immensely. It also just doesn’t perform very well on mobile devices and has huge security flaws. Flash is dying and anything to put it out of it’s misery is a good thing.
Besides, Apple does give you a choice to play Flash content on mobile devices. It’s called…buy a different product! Flash isn’t on iOS for legitimate reasons and those reasons have been plainly laid out by Steve Jobs and Apple…repeatedly.
If you don’t like the reasoning then why are you using Apple products? Because they are superior to the competition. The competition gaining the abortion that is mobile Flash doesn’t change Apple’s superiority, otherwise you would be using an Android device and complaining about the huge security holes in your device.
I think at the minute 70% is Flash based, with just under 50% coded in HTML5 also (but catching up).
@Erk,
I have yet to find someone who has successfully installed the Flash plug-in on their Android phone. I helped a co-worker do it last week and despite selecting the correct version of Android the phone was running on Adobe’s site, it wouldn’t download or install.
Still no Flash on the iPhone. This is a rendering service, who think they’ll make money charging a flat price to serve unlimited use. Unless they slip some ads into the stream looks like bad math to me.
What is wrong with the tea party? Why does everyone have to put then down. At least they have the right ideas. I sure don’t see rep or dems doing any good for the most part other then dragging things down and taking over public companies.
This is all about computers here bot political.
Flash sucks by the way most of the flash I have seen is ads or intros to a website because they feel I guess having some fancy intro will get you to buy more or something.
There is the proof that flash is wanted/needed by ios users……end of story. For those of you whom wish to push jobs personal vendetta through uneducated comments you make all Mac users look like tits on a bull
Besides all the crap ads and bloat that Flash allows, the bottom line is Flash sucks the juice out of the battery…Reports have shown a new MBA with flash gets 4 hours, without 6 hours http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/11/04/dropping_adobe_flash_boosts_apples_macbook_air_battery_life_by_2_hours.html).
I just uninstalled Flash from my MBP to see what happens — I’m happy to divest myself of it, but I do know a lot of sites/web apps use it…I’ll just find solutions that us HTML 5.
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