Skyfire App Pulled From App Store After It 'Sold Out'

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Posted November 3, 2010 at 10:38pm by iClarified

Skyfire has pulled its recently released web browser from the App Store due to 'incredible demand'

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Skyfire for iPhone has been received with unbelievable enthusiasm. Despite our best attempts and predictions, the demand far exceeds our initial projections.

The user experience was performing well for the first few hours, but as the surge continued, the peak load on our servers and bandwidth caused the video experience to degrade.

Thus we are effectively 'sold out' and will temporarily not accept new purchases from the App Store. We are working really hard to increase capacity and will be accepting new purchases from the App Store as soon as we can support it.

We are very grateful for the demand. Within 5 hours, Skyfire for iPhone became the top grossing app, the third highest paid app overall and the top application in the Utilities category. Wow!

Please bear with us as we bring our capacity in line with the incredible demand – stay tuned.

Thanks, Robert.
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Skyfire App Pulled From App Store After It 'Sold Out'

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Doctor Jon - November 4, 2010 at 3:57pm

Theres private browsing lol and no it doesnt work. Tried. Most websites that use flash video dont even work! What a waste.

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SkyFart - November 4, 2010 at 2:06pm

SkyFire = Epic Fail

t11chb - November 4, 2010 at 10:21am

'Sold Out', how can a digital download be sold out!?

Jared - November 4, 2010 at 12:15pm

Did you even read the article? They are "sold out" because they became the #1 grossing application on the app store within 5 hours. They were not planning on having that many people download the app so quickly and their servers got overloaded and the transcoding became extremely laggy so they had to take the app down temporarily until they can expand their servers.

t11chb - November 4, 2010 at 12:20pm

Yes i read it and understood it, they pulled it but what i said was "How can a digital download be 'Sold Out'!", stupid thing to say!

dancj - November 4, 2010 at 3:49pm

You obviously didn't quite understand the "effectively" or the quotes when that said "effectively 'sold out'"

Jared - November 4, 2010 at 3:55pm

Because they sold it to too many people and it overloaded their servers so they are "sold out" for now. It makes perfect sense.

hatta - November 4, 2010 at 8:48am

this is not fully working adobe... fin-tv.com videos needs adobe and skyfire cant play em !

hmmm - November 4, 2010 at 5:14am

I hope this helps Apple to realize the demand for flash on the iPhone.. even tho Jobs is too arrogant and stubborn to admit it and change his mind about anything. Oh wells. I just wish I had wrote up an app like this.. I'd be a millionaire in a day.

fenrry - November 4, 2010 at 1:57am

I got it via Installous to c how good it was using youtube or flash vids in general....it keeps crashing...so I'll pass for the mean time...I don't know the experience of others in this regard