Skyfire browser hits Apple’s App Store

By on Nov 3, 2010 at 2:16 PM
mobile November 3, 2010

Just a quick follow-up to a story we posted yesterday. Alternative iOS web browser Skyfire — the browser that will let you watch Flash movies through some back-end HTML5 wizardry — has officially made its way to the App Store. The application has an “introductory price” of $2.99. If you’re interested, you know what to do. Let us know what you like/dislike about the new browser.

Thanks, deezayy!

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  • Satchmo

    $2.99 isn’t much but it’s enough for me to hold out for some others to report back first…

    • RJB

      Well if you flip burgers for a living, $2.99 is a big decision.

  • Bringit

    on fire.

  • kooansha

    Agree with Satchmo, I’m going to wait

  • Anonymous

    But but iphone users dont need flash.

    • elektra

      Of course we do not need flash. But it won’t hurt not to have it either :-)

    • Anonymous

      They don’t need it.
      They need an alternate browser to convert 25% of flash sites into html5 server-side.
      Totally different, and Steve is still not wrong.

  • Anonymous

    $2.99 starting price…wack

  • http://benpike.net Ben Pike

    No iPad version? I’ll wait…

    • Satchmo

      +1

  • Believedkiller

    Cool. Frash for iPhone is free full flash on your iPhone not the server. Works great. No battery issues. Come on guys skyfire was so two years ago

    • Dz

      frash blows

  • Pyrofallout

    I like how ONLY WAY is captialized. What a LOAD OF CRAP. Frash exists for jailbreakers. So skyfire is not the ONLY WAY.

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

      I got frash, and it sucks!!!!!

  • Vinicius Brenny

    I’ve just installed it and I gotta say: while I would find it better if it was really a Safari add-on, this thing is pretty nice. I have an iPhone 4.
    It’s fast to scroll (looks like even faster than Safari), fast to zoom in and out, and has some nice features (like private browsing fast-switch). I like the ‘things you may like’ feature, too, and the option to browse as an iPhone or desktop browser.

    Tested on:
    -Videolog.tv: popular brazilian youtube-like portal. Nothing came up, just stayed blank.
    -Vimeo: looks like the site prohibited the conversion. Just got the ‘Vimeo is not making videos available for mobile web browsers’ balloon.
    -dailymotion: worked fine (but really took a while to show the video). Once it started to play, perfect until the end.
    -totalshare.com.br: it has a login made on flash. Page had only the background.

  • cam

    awesome

  • Thorpeland

    Funny. $3 for iphone. Free for Android.

    • Anonymous

      Yea because Skyfire’s servers have to convert the video to HTML5.. Which is pointless since the video is shown in a seperate window..

      • Beyotch

        converting flash video to html5 video is very cheap to do. skyfire is rping the iPhone culture for what it’s worth, and that’s just introductory pricing.

      • Beyotch

        *raping

  • Lechero

    doesnt work for megavideo, so as far as im concerned worthless.

    • freddy

      Megavideo and Hulu would be only reasons to grab it really (unless it was free). No use….

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

    What a good week this is turning out to be first the GOP sweeps the house, now Skyfire is on my iPhone.

  • Connorslack

    So far, it has taken m3 8 minutes to load a flash video, and then it did nothing, and it used up 5% worth of battery, thank god i didnt actually pay for this as i had a iTunes credit from gift card.

  • Anonymous

    I am yet to get it to work on a single site. I would like to know which websites they were testing with.

  • Lola

    I think iPhone owners must really thank their Android brethren for this. Without Android taking so much market share, or growing so fast, there’s no way Steve would have allowed Skyfire on the iPhone.

    • Anonymous

      -1

  • Dara

    “early adopters” of a web browser that’s been around for 2 years. Nice.

    Skyfire 1.x was always in a constant state of decay. Essentially, every time you used it, it was the slowest it had ever been.

    I hope that they’re going to put the $2 towards more servers or this will suck in a few months.

  • TomCruise

    videos on skyfire browser is so 2007. i used it on my tmobile MDA windows phone, and it was FREE!!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/djwindsor David Brier

    Very slow to load flash. It is snappy and definitely faster than Safari.

  • Tilk

    Browsing is really snappy but the flash is just a waste of time with this browser.

  • Dz

    i have to say i love my iphone 4, but android really has a leg up on flash, going to my nexus one to watch just about any flash site seamless really makes the galaxy tab more enticing than the ipad, just sayin

  • Visual Mofo

    So it can’t convert Flash into anything on Skyfire. What a waste of $3.

  • Lairbear

    I just tried to buy it and got a message from Apple saying “The item you tried to buy is no longer available. The availability of the item has changed. The same item may be available with a different price or elsewhee on the store.” Has Apple pulled it? I can’t find it anywhere.

  • http://twitter.com/bigbadrobbo bigbadrobbo

    Doesn’t seem to be available in New Zealand…

  • Anonymous

    Would I spend $2.99 to get FLASH?!?!?NO,I won’t get it to my ipad.
    free ipad resources:http://www.aneesoft.com/tutorials/ipad/index.html

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