No Flash for you! Skyfire pulled from iOS App Store [Updated]

By on Nov 3, 2010 at 8:02 PM
Breaking November 3, 2010

We should have known it was too good to be true. Just hours after mobile web browser Skyfire landed in Apple’s iOS App Store, it was gone. For reasons only known to Apple, the iDevice company has deemed the alternative browser unworthy of a place in its famed App Store. Skyfire’s claim to fame is in its ability to remotely convert Flash video into HTML5 video that is then viewable on the iPhone. We’ve reached out to Skyfire for comment and will update the post if they respond.

Thanks, CDeeRON!

UPDATE: We’ve been informed that Skyfire pulled the application from the App Store, not Apple. High demand for Flash to HTML5 video conversions stressed the company’s servers to the max. Skyfire plans on retooling their backend infrastructure and relaunching the application.

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  • Gquaglia

    Could have told you that would happen. No flash for you, Lord Jobs has spoken.

  • Fezy

    Just get the skyfire from installous I already did :D

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2PHUQPSTB5DJTTM6WNY24ZHLO4 Roz

      whats installous

  • B to the

    So the demand for flash vids was more than the servers could handle. But I thought we were passed flash, Steve Jobs?

  • Meandyou

    Install0us is your best friend!

  • Eternalplayer

    Epic failure. I had high hopes for the app. Worst $2.99 I have spent in the app store.

  • ozziedog

    Yeah and Apple leave a piece of junk app called “Flash Player Review” on its app store. Flash Player Review looks like the real Flash Player logo and all, but it doesn’t do anything, but give definition of what Flash Player is and does all for $9.99. To top it all for every bad review posted their are two reviews that give it top marks. I am one that fell for it and paid the $9.99 thinking it was the real deal NOT. My two cents.

    • Blair Jh

      Well, if you’re posting here you should know better.

  • http://www.facebook.com/michaeljmcgrath Michael McGrath

    Can you fix the “connect to facebook” feature?

  • http://www.facebook.com/michaeljmcgrath Michael McGrath

    That’s funny. I still can use Skyfire on my DROID. I was using it for HypeM, earlier today. ;)

  • Drew

    That’s funny, I still can use Fennec, Chrome and Firefox on my N900 with all of the flash content I want… what a fail to have to pay for something that is so FREE on the Internet but because some asshole won’t allow it on a device that YOU own. FAIL of EPIC proportions!!!!

  • http://justinpaine.com xxdesmus

    Typical Apple bulls**t. just get a Droid instead.

  • http://www.facebook.com/drypulse Bryan Parker

    high demand for flash? really? thats so unexpected….. stupid ass Jobs. (yes i use an iphone, and yes i want flash) battery performance should be my choice, i own the damn phone, let me worry about it

  • Droid XXX

    hahahahahahahahahhaah! Iphone losers still waiting hahahhahahahahahah! Android FTW!!!

  • Anonymous

    Its called Frash, and you can easily get it after jailbreaking. Jailbreak.

  • http://twitter.com/Ryo Ryo

    And that’s why there is Android ftw!

  • Droid2011

    I remember a year or 2 back when Skyfire was the only option for a Windows mobile device and then finally a Droid, It feels good to be a head of curve, Droid!

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