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Skyfire to Bring Flash Video to iOS Devices

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The Flash conversation tends to concentrate on ads and videos, neither of which are critical to me on my iPhone - but where being able to selectively turn Flash on would be useful would be on sites where content and navigation elements are using Flash. I'd pay 2.99 for an app that could do that, but for a video-only converter? Probably not.

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mcmlxix said:
You Tube (which I rarely use on my mobile) works fine already. The only time I miss Flash is the on the rare occasion I'm at a resturant site (or some such) and the main page and/or menu is in Flash. Will it even work with this?
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Mysticbluebmw said:
Ughhhh, could care less about flash video. That's all everyone talks about when discussing flash. I need flash to browse websites that use flash as part of the page content and can't otherwise be viewed. That's where Apple has dropped the ball.
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They'd better buy Apple's data farm if they want this thing to be a success and still work.
 
-=XX=-Nephilim said:
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.
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Now you can finally watch all the porn you want on your iPhone ;)
 
Robert M. said:
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!
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Seriously. They haven't figured out how to block my HDMI cable from my MacBook to my TV yet. Plus the Apple Remote works wonderfully with Hulu Desktop.

I really want a new MacBook that passes audio through the DisplayPort straight to HDMI
 
iphone3gs16gb said:
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?
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Speaking for myself, 3 bucks isn't a big deal. However, is this product worth my $3? Comparing it to other apps that are priced the same or lower, it isn't.

I bought Atomic Browser for 99¢, and it has way more features than this browser. Sure Atomic lacks Flash, but as I stated before, I don't miss flash on my iDevices. If Atomic Browser was $3, I still would have bought it.

To me, an app like this is more worthy of a 99¢ price than a $2.99 price. I definitely don't think it should be free (but I wouldn't complain if it was....).

Again, I don't have a problem spending $3, but from the perspective of the App Store, this isn't worth $3 to me.
 
The flash thing by itself doesn't sell this to me but the support for User Agent switching as well makes this buy for me. I hate hate hate being forced to use the mobile version of some websites.
 
having to wait for the video to be converted sucks. having to pay to wait is worse. can't wait till everyone's on html5! :apple:
 
-=XX=-Nephilim said:
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
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Are you for real, or just trolling?

Having used iPad for over a month, I can assure you that lack of flash is pretty much a non-issue. On the other hand, enabling Flash on my Android 2.2 phone results in a crappy browsing experience, as sites attempt to load all the flash based ads. It just slows the entire browser down, and makes browsing jittery. I ended up turning off Flash on my EVO anyway.

I disagree with Jobs on a lot of things, but Flash free web isn't one of them.
 
Why....

I dont see why people even care to waste their time to create an app like this....as you can see from the KaTrillionBillion iPhones/iPod touches/iPad that have been sold WITHOUT flash, there is no complaints, or nothing stopping people from using them and buying them by the buttloads...Flash is not as important as people try to complain about...if it was such a huge issue, these devices would not have sold as crazy as they did and still are....save your $2.99 people.
 
mysticbluebmw said:
Ughhhh, could care less about flash video. That's all everyone talks about when discussing flash. I need flash to browse websites that use flash as part of the page content and can't otherwise be viewed. That's where Apple the designer of the website has dropped the ball.
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There, fixed that for ya.
 
-=XX=-Nephilim said:
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...
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And yet, you're still here. Strange.

Isn't there a Flash devices forum you could hang out at, where you'd be appreciated? :p

hitekalex said:
Are you for real, or just trolling?
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Nephilim is one of our resident trolls. He has nothing better to do with his life than to hang out on an Apple-based forum to b1tch about Apple after saying he's never using an "iDevice" again. Kind of a pathetic existence, ain't it?
 
I can see why it's worth $3, if they have to convert the videos in their servers. That's sounds pretty expensive for them. Doesn't really sound like a money maker to me, though I have no idea how much that type of bandwidth cost.
 
chim9999 said:
can't say i miss flash on my phone, either. if it did more than video i'd get it.
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That's my feeling as well. I'd love to be able to view homestarrunner on my iPhone, but this app won't do that. Since so many video sites are converting to HTLM5, this app seems like too little too late.
 
Will this work for streaming video on the web? This is where I miss Flash the most. A lot of live sports broadcasts require Flash (or Silverlight) to work. On my iPad I miss using my Slingbox, NHL GameCenter Live and DirectTV To Go. Also for MLBTV you need to buy an extra App while the web content is free with an account.
 
There is not much ...

My life will not change because of this, so a big yawn.
 
Hulu. Hulu alone will make this app a smash hit. Hulu is worth paying a one-time fee of $3, as opposed to the $10 monthly fee for hulu+ which is currently the only way to watch hulu on an iDevice.
 
it really depends how that works. if you can redirect a stream to their servers and get it back as HTML5 then great, hulu and the daily show will work.

if they need to cache the entire file first then not many flash movies will work and it's of no interest to me. we will see.

i hope they have enough cash to run their servers. also, when flash video becomes less dominant or when adobe creates a flash player that runs well on mobile devices they are out of business.
 
dscuber9000 said:
Agreed. Only an idiot Web designer would put important info/content only viewable in Flash when portable Web browsing has exploded the past couple years.
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And yet it happens all the time. I will let you conclude the quality of many web designers from that fact. :(
 
You can't transcode anything into HTML 5

What this app does is transcoding flv files into mpeg 4 files which can be played on an iOS device. It has nothing to do with HTML 5 whatsoever. HTML 5 is a standards specification, not a video codec. In fact HTML 5 does not even specify which codecs to use for it's video tag.
 
Damn it. I have been waiting almost 3 years for this and now its here but im not sure about it. I remember back in my Blackberry days Skyfire was supposed to set the BB world on fire, then they stopped making it and did the Android version.

$3 is expensive for something im not sure I will be using, but then again, maybe I will be using it. I only wish it did games and Hulu. But I guess its fine to do sports, news, and the few hulu knock offs that still exist.

Sucks that its $3 though, it was free for everything else. Im guessing they are just going to cash in then make the app free in a few months.
 
This isn't very helpful. What you want to do in iOS is be able to use websites that still use flash.... booking websites use it a lot still.

iOS will be more satsifying when you really can do all this stuff via iPad, not try and use third party apps, wait 5 years or whatever the solution is.
 
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