Skyfire flash app sold out for iphone, still free for android

The popular app for android, is now available for the iphone and was sold out in just a few hours!

Well actually you cant sell out a virtual copy of an app, but their poor servers got BUSTED from the demand ( they need to upgrade em celerons!! ;) )

The demand spread out to quickly to those iphone users hungry to play flash videos on their phone.

It converts that flash vid to the new html5 standard. Allowing many times for a smoother experience even on android (which, unlike the iphone, already has flash officially available).

While games and other flash apps are not supported, at least this time iphone users will get a glimpse on the video content that android users have been enjoying for a while now.



from the vid of the iphone version, you can see it makes you wait a while for videos to load, so android users are still in advantage here with virtually no extra loading times.

Still it's an acceptable workaround, and by its popularity it shows that apple's ego is way over their head and sometimes places its users as last priority.

Well, even if a good portion of users have been suffering the consequences of poor decisions or even decided to move entirely away from apple's platform, one good thing has come out of this: "faster html5 adoption". Kudos to the skyfire team for being bold and making aggressive use of this technology :)

Anyway, grab the browser app here:
http://get.skyfire.com
(remember is free for android)

Iphone users
will get a notice of when they can purchase the app (it will be sold in batches, first come ,first serve).

source: skyfire blog