Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Skyfire "Sold Out" due to overwhelming user response

The sky fire app browser has recently been pulled from the app store because it apparently sold out due to incredible response from users. The browser plays flash by downloading it onto it's servers and rendering it into an HTML 5 video playable on any iPhone or iPod Touch. The servers were overwhelmed in a couple of hours. So they announced that they will temporarily stop selling this application until they can take this kind of serve load. To put into perspective the kind of strain that their servers are taking, within five hours this application became the highest grossing app, the overall top paid app and the top in utilities

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