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Skyfire to Bring Flash Video to iOS Devices
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Looks cool but it strikes me as something that the media will care more about than actual iOS users will care.
It sure sounds like a big story but this is really more of a "it'll be useful every now and then" kind of app. I might buy it for fun but I won't be e-mailing my non-techie iPhone-owning friends to tell them about it.
It sure sounds like a big story but this is really more of a "it'll be useful every now and then" kind of app. I might buy it for fun but I won't be e-mailing my non-techie iPhone-owning friends to tell them about it.
I wish they'd bring a fast browser with decent ad blocking software instead of a browser that converts Flash video.
I'll check it out. Thanks.
I really like Atomic. About the only thing hay Safari does better is remembering things like input fields and passwords.
Agreed. I used it YEARS ago on Windows Mobile, back when Microsoft had no idea about how to write a mobile browser. It will be on my i devices day of release.
Good. Though I don't think this is something Steve likes, for iOS users to be able to get so many videos so easily. Also some people might hate that they have to pay just to watch flash video. It complicates things.
I miss Flash so much that it is one of the main reasons why I boycott all iDevices.
Web without Flash is not the web... It's crippled pile of crap SJ wants me to browse and not much to do with what I want to browse...
SkyFire sounds good but it is nowhere near enough to fill the huge web gap on intentionally crippled iOS devices.
Web without Flash is not the web... It's crippled pile of crap SJ wants me to browse and not much to do with what I want to browse...
SkyFire sounds good but it is nowhere near enough to fill the huge web gap on intentionally crippled iOS devices.
I hope it works better than their demo video. I thnk they added all those extra features so you could be distracted while the video loads. If it's not near instant on, it's a not go for me.
Big question is.... what will performance be like
No expert here... but just seems like performance might be an issue... every site I go to, if it has to route the link back to these guys, they convert the video, even if its on the fly, and send it back to my app... just seems like it would take a while for that whole process to work...
Maybe they've figured out some cool tricks to make this work well.... but like several others... I haven't missed Flash enough to spend $3 on something that "might work OK"...
No expert here... but just seems like performance might be an issue... every site I go to, if it has to route the link back to these guys, they convert the video, even if its on the fly, and send it back to my app... just seems like it would take a while for that whole process to work...
Maybe they've figured out some cool tricks to make this work well.... but like several others... I haven't missed Flash enough to spend $3 on something that "might work OK"...
guys, it's just $3...
if you think $3 is too much, then you shouldn't have an iPhone to begin with...
why the sudden cheapness?
if you think $3 is too much, then you shouldn't have an iPhone to begin with...
why the sudden cheapness?
No! Mark my words, Hulu will block this just like they blocked my PS3 browser
They want you to pay if you're not sitting down watching it on a computer!