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'Skyfire Web Browser' Now Available in App Store
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False.
Yeah, that's what Skyfire does on other phones. All Skyfire for iPhone does is play some FLVs. The browser renders everything on your phone using webkit, just like Safari.
NFL.com and ABC.com are the only 2 sites I've been able to get videos to play. Yes, they each take about :45 to a minute to load.
Did you see the NFL Gamecenter app? The pro version is a hefty 8$ but it plays all the videos of NFL.com.
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No, it's not. Copyright infringement is the violation of somebody's intellectual property rights. Legally there is no relationship between copyright infringement and theft. Suggesting otherwise is to be led astray by PR slight-of-hand put forth by the MPAA/RIAA/etc in an effort to elicit public sympathy.
BTW - I'm not suggesting that copyright infringement is ok. It's not. However, it falls under a completely different set of law and regulations than theft.
How about this, taking the app when you should havd paid for it is A) dishonest and B) doesn't pay revenue to those that rightfully should have received it.
You can argue semantics all day long, but it's stupid. If you an afford an iPhone you can afford a $3 app.
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This! and if I use VNC there is no sound, and the software that does RDP on the mac doesn't have support for sound yet. Also it lags the video and this app supposedly compress the quality according to connection speed and don't have to connect to my home network....
Skyfire has already been pulled from many european Appstores. I guess it is a matter of time till it gets pulled from the US store too.
Why?
Ok, maybe some people will be interested in this. Personally, I don't have a need for it. My personal belief is that anything that tries to transcode or strip the MP4 video out of an FLV is clearly a band-aid. If I have to launch a whole different browser in order to to apply this video band-aid, the actual browser should be really good and offer some sort of other functionality.
I suppose if you needed to get FLV wrapped videos playing on your phone urgently, this is your only option.
Ok, maybe some people will be interested in this. Personally, I don't have a need for it. My personal belief is that anything that tries to transcode or strip the MP4 video out of an FLV is clearly a band-aid. If I have to launch a whole different browser in order to to apply this video band-aid, the actual browser should be really good and offer some sort of other functionality.
I suppose if you needed to get FLV wrapped videos playing on your phone urgently, this is your only option.
They charge for this app so they can subsidize the cost of converting their videos to mp4. I"m sure some executive wanted a way to offset the costs and thought it would be a genius idea.
$8 is a lot to pay for videos that are already available through a computer.
Seemed like a good idea when i first read about it (for watching 4OD in the UK - similar to BBC iPlayer).
Sadly, reading more put me off. I don't want to wait ages for things to be converted - i might as well just watch on my iMac. I also found that there isn't an iPad version, and wouldn't want to watch any videos on my iPod Touch.
I'll go back to waiting for 4OD to support iOS instead
Sadly, reading more put me off. I don't want to wait ages for things to be converted - i might as well just watch on my iMac. I also found that there isn't an iPad version, and wouldn't want to watch any videos on my iPod Touch.
I'll go back to waiting for 4OD to support iOS instead
Skyfire would have to commit a criminal offense in the UK by bypassing the RTMPE content protection on 4OD's streams in order to do so, so I think it's unlikely.
I'll go back to waiting for 4OD to support iOS instead
Keep waiting, given they've previously said the content protection on iOS isn't good enough.
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I wonder how many of the "Flash is dead, we don't need it!" people are considering this browser.
Still though, just read on the app description page "Special Early Adopter Price!!" - so its going to cost more?! For a browser I can't even set as default I'm not paying £1.79 or more.
Still though, just read on the app description page "Special Early Adopter Price!!" - so its going to cost more?! For a browser I can't even set as default I'm not paying £1.79 or more.
I wonder how many of the "Flash is dead, we don't need it!" people are considering this browser.
Still though, just read on the app description page "Special Early Adopter Price!!" - so its going to cost more?! For a browser I can't even set as default I'm not paying £1.79 or more.
Not I. I'm living just fine w/o flash on my iPhone.
Apple has pulled sky fire from it's app store the bastards!!!
Yup, I just tried to get it as well. It pops up in a search for Skyfire Web Browser, but a message Pops up, "Your request could not be completed," when you click on it.
