Skyfire for iOS approved with Flash-to-HTML5 video converting in tow

By on Nov 2, 2010 at 11:44 AM
Software November 2, 2010

A new report Tuesday morning from CNNMoney.com states that Skyfire’s mobile Web browser for iOS has been approved by Apple. Skyfire 2.0, which the report states will become available in Apple’s App Store on Thursday, is one of several mobile Safari alternatives available for the iPhone. The main distinguishing factor touted by Skyfire, however, is the app’s ability to play Adobe Flash-based video content on iOS devices. The app achieves this by utilizing software on Skyfire’s remote servers to convert Flash video to an iOS-friendly HTML5-based format. The converted video then streams to the device from Skyfire’s servers. The crafty workaround won’t support interactive Flash content such as games, but many iOS users will welcome the ability to stream a much wider range of videos than had previously been available on iOS. The app will be available for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, and will cost $2.99 when it becomes available. Hit the break for a video demo of Skyfire 2.0 in action.

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  • http://twitter.com/BioBlueDemon BioBlueDemon

    I’m liking what I’m seeing…

  • Flash is blocked

    Doesn’t work for most Flash.

  • dave

    looks good to me. Gets around the flash video capabilities. I really don’t care about flash games, app store games are much better anyway,

  • Anonymous

    SkyFire was free on Android (still is I’d imagine) its been in beta forever though. Now with 2.2 supporting flash its not *really* needed. Good to see it getting to iOS though. That’s quite awesome.

  • ricky

    i hate this new bgr layout

    • Farfignuten

      I agree.. It sucks.

    • Tony

      I like the disqus comment system, though.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BHMB52ZFMATI5KS7D4JT6UU7NA Eric W

    $2.99….hmmm must have been a bribe to get apple to approve this. I guess Apple will get $1 per download.

    Well worth it for me though.

  • Farfignuten

    half -ass flash.. Yippie..

    Sucks that we have to go through this to get standard internet content, and not even all of it. Blah.

  • http://darnell-chat.myopenid.com/ Darnell

    Don’t tell me what comes next, Adobe will suddenly have yet another “security update” that will just so happen to break how this feature in Skyfire works and the feature won’t work for some days and the cat and mouse game will go on?

    • http://www.facebook.com/serio Austin Serio

      You guys obviously have no idea what their talking about. The only site that has blocked skyfire is hulu and rightfully so (their business model). Adobe cannot block this feature or “break it”. Skyfire works great and wonderfully. Skyfire does not play a game of cat and mouse with anyone. It works just as it should.

  • VirginMerry

    One less reason to get a Droid…

    • Anonymous

      I think you mean one more reason to get an android phone.

  • Bringit

    test

  • Tim6253

    Skyfire on Android isn’t that great. It is half-assed and piggy-backs off of the stock browser. It will be interesting to see if the paid iphone version is more like the winmo version. It’s free for everybody, but iphone users. Go figure. Greedy Stevie.

    • Anonymous

      Steve Jobs no more sets prices on items in the app store than you do.

  • Cra

    This blows

  • elektra

    Awesome. This is good news. Of course the haters still find something to complain about :-)

  • Tony

    Hulu blocks Skyfire, and most of the videos that I watched on other sites didn’t work. I don’t want Flash on my phone just for videos. I want to be able to play games and go to the full version of complex websites. Apple just doesn’t seem to understand this. If they prefer HTML5, then why not just have both?

  • Mgl323

    Looking forward with this app.

  • wanderer

    Great news to me, I had Skyfire on my old N95 and it sucked big time, but now they have a workaround for the iphone with the converting done outside and it sounds like the way Cloudbrowse does it. I don’t really play any flash based games, more interested in the video portion. Lets see…

  • Rouge_1

    Skyfire is available now.

  • Believedkiller

    Download frash for iPhone. It’s real flash on your iPhone. Google it. Skyfire was cool two years ago

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