The rest of the article explains how is only for Flash video. And of course the reason they hit a 'sold out' condition is that they maxed out the ability to provide on-the-fly video translations to the customer base that had bought Skyfire.
I wouldn't necessarily downplay the significance of Skyfire simply because it does Flash video only - not the entire Flash animation, etc., experience. In the general web browsing I do, when I encounter a site that has embedded video, greater than 90% of the time that video is provided as Flash video. Which means if I was using, say, an iPad to do my web browsing, roughly 90% of the video I encounter and want to access, I would not be able to - without a solution such as Skyfire. I can easily see why there's such demand for this app just on the basis to start seeing Flash video become accessible again. Steve Jobs may bully the really big sites into addressing the video needs of iOS, but a vast universe of web sites are still just doing Flash video and don't have the bandwidth (both literally and figuratively) to be providing multiple video formats. Providing Flash video is a turnkey situation for these sites to set up. Not so other video streaming solutions. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
