Posted on 11/03/2010 6:20:00 PM PDT by PugetSoundSoldier
Trying to get a copy of the Skyfire browser for your iOS device? You may not have much luck, as the pseudo-Flash-capable browser has just disappeared from iTunes App Stores around the globe, mere hours after its splashy debut. When we try to download it for ourselves in the United States we get the message immediately above, and RazorianFly readers are chiming in with reports that the app is no longer available in Greece, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Australia, Canada, Switzerland, Norway, Spain and the UK.
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Maybe, just maybe, the market really is different than what Apple believes? How about opening up the platform so that developers can develop what the market wants, rather than what the platform planners decide the market will get?
Interesting - when will platform makers realize their job is to make a platform, not dictate what developers and consumers can do on the platform?
Microsoft gets it - focus on a solid platform, and give the tools and access to that platform to the developers to create apps that consumers want. It’s why they make more profit than anyone in the tech industry.
Support your clients - developers and consumers - by letting THEM decide what they want to run on your platform.
How the heck do you “sell out” of an app?
In before the fanbois arrive to say lacking a ubiquitous capability is a feature.
They capped sales because their servers are overwhelmed. Because Apple has dictated “NO FLASH” on iDevices, Skyfire gets around that by transcoding flash websites on their own servers, then sending the results to your phone in another format.
Essentially, demand was so high that Skyfire’s servers can’t handle all the bandwidth requests. So until they roll out more servers, they’re cutting off sales.
Yep, just checked the app store on my iPhone and in search it is found, but when you select it, you receive a no match. Kind of odd...I love Apple, but it is a strange company.
When they are stopped at the barrel of a gun.
Platform development is not about software, hardware, business or anything other than naked control of lives. Everything is to go online - everything. So he who controls the platform, controls the lives.
Jobs is a longtime Leftist. From his point of view, Apple is a control mechanism based on seduction. Anyone who sees anything else... makes him laugh.
And he laughs a LOT.
iWhiners in 5, 4, 3, 2....
Its not a bug, its a feature.
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