The much-heralded Skyfire browser app for the iPhone – the one that translates Flash video to HTML 5 so that it can be viewed on the iPhone – launched earlier today. And was taken down by its publishers within just a few hours.
It seems the app was more of an instant hit than its publishers had anticipated, and their servers just could not keep up with the demand from early iPhone users. Here’s the official statement on this from the Skyfire Blog:
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!
If any of you were quick enough to grab a copy of Skyfire before it was pulled, we’d love to hear your thoughts on it in the comments.
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