Industry Praise for Skyfire

• “Skyfire plays Flash video by transcoding video files into HTML5 in the cloud and optimising them for mobile delivery”

  PC Authority - April 6, 2011

• “the update will include a revamped pricing model and UI customization.”

  Laptop Magazine - March 11, 2011

• "Pretty much anything you can do from the desktop version of Facebook, you can do here," Guesman said.

  PC Magazine - November 23, 2010

• “Skyfire 3.0 with Facebook Connect makes mobile browsing social,” said Jeff Glueck, CEO of Skyfire.

  Erictric - November 23, 2010

• “The Skyfire cloud makes every video adaptive to network conditions and connection speeds, which means a smoother video playback, but also an average of 75 percent data savings for the network.”

  Venture Beat - November 23, 2010

• “It was hard to predict consumer demand since this was our first paid app, but we were blown away by the demand and sales.”

  Gadget and Gizmos - November 5, 2010

• From a statement by Skyfire CEO Jeffrey Glueck: "Skyfire has historically generated high demand for its browser products but nothing like this ... we were blown away by the demand and sales."

  - November 5, 2010

• "We are going to open batches of downloads for new users over the coming days," chief executive Jeff Glueck said in a blog post. "The first batch will be in a few minutes on the Apple App Store. It will be first come, first serve."

  PC Magazine - November 5, 2010

• “Skyfire is the ONLY WAY to enjoy millions of FLASH VIDEOS from the web on your iPhone or iPod Touch. Browse your favorite web sites and unlock the content that matters to you: funny clips, sports and news updates, the video link your friend sent you.”

  The APPERA - November 5, 2010

• “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,” said Robert on the Skyfire website.

  My Gadget News - November 5, 2010

• “Skyfire for iPhone has been received with unbelievable enthusiasm,”

  The Tech Herald - November 5, 2010

• “Skyfire’s cloud technology means videos play faster and smoother, with less buffering, less 'stuttering', and better battery life.”

  PC Authority - November 4, 2010

• “The app itself is a full dedicated browser in its own right, but it has been built on top of the Safari browser that’s present on all iDevices.”

  Sell My Mobile - November 4, 2010

• "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," explained a post on the company's blog.

  Wireless Week - November 4, 2010

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

  CS Monitor - November 4, 2010

• "Skyfire is assuring users that the app's sold out status was a temporary measure taken by Skyfire, and was not the decision of Apple, Inc., which has approved the application."

  The Inquirer - November 4, 2010

• "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," said the company on its blog.

  MSNBC - November 4, 2010

• "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."

  MarketWatch - November 4, 2010

• "Users don't think about what video technology a site uses. They just want the video to play."

  eWeek.com - November 4, 2010

• “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!”

  The Epoch Times - November 4, 2010

• "The user experience was performing well for the first few hours," Skyfire said.

  PCWorld - November 4, 2010

• "We are effectively ‘sold out' and will temporarily not accept new purchases from the App Store," the company said. "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."

  PCWorld - November 3, 2010

• "Users don't think about what video technology a site uses. They just want the video to play," Skyfire CEO Jeff Glueck said in a statement.

  CNET News - November 3, 2010

• W00t! iOS users are Flash-less no more! So forget about the draconian Steve Jobs, and download Skyfire for your iPhone or iPod Touch. Now you can use the $3 browser to access millions of Flash-based videos that were previously off limits to non-jailbroken iOS devices. So, what is exactly is Skyfire and how does it work? Well, the app is a full-fledged web browser powered by the same WebKit core as Safari. It uses a highly-scalable, "rocket platform" to efficiently transcode video content into Apple-approved formats on the fly via cloud-based computing. 

 This approach is not only efficient for networks, but smartphones as well - saving battery life and compressing data by an average of 75 percent. "Users [really] don’t think about what video technology a site uses. They just want the video to play,” explained Skyfire CEO Jeff Glueck.

  TG Daily - November 3, 2010

• "We're bringing a technology - a browser - that allows you to see all those videos which we translate in to Apple-approved formats on the fly so that you can on your iPod Touch or iPhone see billions of videos that were previously unavailable."

  IT News - November 3, 2010

• "What this means is instead of getting a few thousand videos specially formatted for the iPhone, you now have access to the millions of the Flash videos available on the Internet," the developer said.

  CNET Downloads - UK - November 3, 2010

• “Our technology meets a need for consumers who want to get more from their web browsing on iPhones and iPod touches, including videos designed for Flash Player and many other new browsing features".

  Pocket-Lint - November 3, 2010

• "We're a consumer business, so the trust of our users is everything to us," said Glueck. "Our business is not about advertising at all."

  Wibw - November 3, 2010

• “Skyfire is the ONLY WAY to enjoy millions of FLASH VIDEOS from the web on your iPhone or iPod Touch. Browse your favorite web sites and unlock the content that matters to you: funny clips, sports and news updates, the video link your friend sent you.”

  The APPERA - November 3, 2010

• SkyFire's goal, company CEO Jeffrey Glueck told CNNMoney, is to "attack those pesky blue Flash error messages."

  The Register - November 3, 2010

• “The app is actually SOLD OUT while Skyfire increases server capacity. They’ll open up a new batch for download very soon. Skyfire is working to increase server capacity as we speak and in the end, this will result in the best possible user experience once they hit the store again. ”

  Cult of the Mac - November 3, 2010

• "We will attack those pesky blue Flash error messages," says Jeffrey Glueck, CEO of Mountain View, CA,-based Skyfire. Go here for a Fortune video interview with Glueck explaining Skyfire’s “engineering magic.

  Appolicious - November 3, 2010

• “Skyfire has historically generated high demand for its browser products but nothing like this,” states Skyfire CEO Jeffrey Glueck.

  Into Mobile - November 3, 2010

• "We're a consumer business, so the trust of our users is everything to us," said Glueck. "Our business is not about advertising at all."

  CNN Money - November 2, 2010

• "We will attack those pesky blue Flash error messages," said Jeffrey Glueck, Skyfire's CEO.

  TechRadar - November 2, 2010

• "Skyfire for iPhone was built in accordance with Apple guidelines, including the use of a WebKit browser core shared with Safari, and h.264 adaptive streaming," Skyfire said in an October blog post. "Skyfire enables Flash on Apple devices by transcoding video content into HTML5 on the fly from millions of web sites; it supports iOS devices via Apple's HTTP live streaming.

  PC Magazine - November 2, 2010

• "We're a consumer business, so the trust of our users is everything to us," said Glueck. "Our business is not about advertising at all."

  CNN Money - November 2, 2010

• "We will attack those pesky blue Flash error messages," Skyfire CEO Jeffrey Glueck told CNN this week.

  CS Monitor - November 2, 2010

• Jeffrey Glueck, Skyfire’s CEO, said: “We will attack those pesky blue Flash error messages.”

  dialtosave - November 2, 2010

• ccording to an article on CNNMoney.com, Skyfire "isn't a standalone application, but rather a tool that works on top of Apple's Safari Web browser.

  ReadWriteWeb - November 2, 2010

• If watching Flash video is high on your list, Skyfire appears to be an obvious answer in a pre-Android 2.2 world. And Skyfire's page load speeds are impressive.

  PCWorld - September 27, 2010

• In particular, I think that Skyfire has a chance to displace Opera on a ton of feature phones as the default mobile web browser. The mobile web browser also uses a proxy system to deliver richer Internet content to handsets while minimizing bandwidth and I generally like its interface better than Opera.

  Into Mobile - August 3, 2010

• In the world of alternative browsers for Android phones, you have dozens to choose from but only one that supports Flash video.

  PC Magazine - June 23, 2010

• Don't have Android 2.2 yet? No worries, there's a way to play Flash content right now, with Skyfire 2.0-one of the best alternative browsers out there.

  Gizmodo - May 29, 2010

• "Thanks to players like Hulu, Boxee and SkyFire, we find a very different media space compared to five years ago," said Stein, adding that social media is also in demand.

  PJ Star (Peoria) - May 23, 2010

• Skyfire already turned smartphones on their sides when they created a browser that played flash video. Even on a tiny screen, being able to watch full episodes of tv shows and other flash based video is a big convenience when you are on the go.

  Gear Diary - May 20, 2010

• Skyfire is part of a rare breed - internet browsers made only for mobile devices.

  GoMo News - May 20, 2010

• So bottom line is, if you have Android phone, be sure to get this app, because it?s simply amazing.

  GadgetLite - May 1, 2010

• ...and just like that, Fennec was beaten to the punch.

  GadgetSteria - April 30, 2010

• The Skyfire 2.0 browser is out for Android users and it looks to be a dandy.

  Examiner.com - April 29, 2010

• Frankly, in my opinion you can't find a better browser on Android. And even if you don't agree, it's nice to have a choice isn't it?

  Examiner.com - April 29, 2010

• Skyfire for Android is looking great.

  Gizmodo - April 29, 2010

• Skyfire is one of those 'hidden gems' of mobile computing.

  Download Squad - April 14, 2010

• I've used the Skyfire browser on the S60 and Windows Mobile platforms. It really is great.

  Information Week - April 8, 2010

• Skyfire is an extremely light weight mobile browser that has two major strengths. First, it side-loads everything from the Skyfire server. What that means is that when you request a web page through Skyfire, it loads that web page on its own servers first - faster than your phone ever could. Then it optimises that page to display the best on your particular model of mobile device. THEN it sends it to your phone.

  GoMo News - February 16, 2010

• Considering how many times I've written about it, it probably goes without saying that I'm a fan of Skyfire.

  Tech Crunch - February 11, 2010

• If your first smartphone was Android-based, you probably don't know much about Skyfire. But for those of us who migrated from Windows Mobile or S60, you know it was one of the best web browser alternatives for mobile phones.

  Androinica - February 11, 2010

• "Skyfire could easily be the best mobile browser so far; it renders full web pages, including Flash, Silverlight, JavaScript, CSS and PDF - so it works with YouTube and BBC iPlayer and Google Docs and Hotmail, just like a real PC browser."

  TechRadar - November 23, 2009

• "...not only does Skyfire allow mobile users to view rich websites, it is also very fast."

  San Francisco Examiner - June 24, 2009

• "First, Skyfire is fast... really fast. Just try zooming in and out on a page, or scrolling. Loading pages is quick too. And it gets better -- support for dynamic web sites. Skyfire supports Flash 10, Silverlight, QuickTime, Windows Media Player, and Realplayer. So now you can tread where iPhones fear to go... sites with Flash."

  Network World - June 16, 2009

• Rated 5 Stars.

  vnunet - June 2, 2009

• "Skyfire can handle just about any Web page, including iframes, in-place pop-ups like calendar pickers, and the browsing widget on Flickr that lets you scroll through a photo stream without changing the page."

  Tom's Guide - May 29, 2009

• "Perhaps the coolest part of the browser however is compatibility with Flash 10, Silverlight 2, Ajax and Javascript - an industry first."

  Trusted Review - May 29, 2009

• "In a special IT Blogwatch Extra, Skyfire lights up the blogosphere. It's an alternate Web browser for Windows Mobile, Symbian, and BlackBerry. Richi Jennings discovers that, by all accounts, it's really rather good..."

  ComputerWorld - May 27, 2009

• "In a word, it's great."

  Gizmodo - May 27, 2009

• "Skyfire Mobile Browser Reaches 1.0 Release, Officially Kicks Other Browsers' Tails"

  Information Week - May 27, 2009

• "The Skyfire browser is a must-have download for Windows mobile users or anyone with a Symbian Nokia E or N series phone. It means no more mucking around with scaled down mobile versions of your favorite websites. You'll be surfing the real web."

  About.com Guide to Web Trends - May 27, 2009

• "To be honest, the Skyfire browser freaking rocks."

  Center Networks - May 27, 2009

• "Skyfire, just out of Beta, [offers] rapid browsing even over low speed connections, supports Flash and Java based web sites and embedded video streaming. Compared to Safari with its non existent support for Flash, Skyfire is a revelation. "

  ITProPortal - May 27, 2009

• "Now, with Skyfire 1.0 launching today, the product looks like the real deal, offering a mobile web experience that provides good navigation, social networking integration and best of all, glorious web video."

  Seattle Times Post-Intelligencer - May 27, 2009

• "Smartphones have become the browser battleground that the computer once was, and my hands-down favorite is Skyfire..."
  
  "Compare it to your phone's built-in browser, or even the popular Opera browser, and you'll instantly see the difference."
  

  New York Times - May 20, 2009

• "Windows Mobile users who have had to put up with the considerable limitations of Internet Explorer can now leap ahead of their iPhone-toting friends with Skyfire..."
  

  San Francisco Chronicle - April 23, 2009

• "(Skyfire) quickly became a favorite around these parts for its abilities to playback Flash video and a number of other rich media formats..."

  Tech Crunch - February 12, 2009

• "Skyfire runs circles around the iPhone, BlackBerry, and other smart phones in terms of sheer speed."

  Laptop Magazine - February 11, 2009

• "a phenomenal browser..."

  Gizmodo - January 15, 2009

• "Skyfire is a mobile browser that sets no limits on what you can access online from your Windows Mobile device. It's also blazing fast, loading large pages like CNN.com in a few seconds..."

  Laptop Magazine - January 9, 2009

• "I've had great luck using Skyfire on my Q9H and BlackJack II; I've used it for everything from playing with Facebook to accessing my online bank statements to watching TV shows at Hulu.com!"

  Microsoft Weblog - January 5, 2009

• "Skyfire, as I've said before, is my top pick for mobile browsing"

  Windows Mobile Cool - November 4, 2008

• "I've touched on this a few times, but can't heap enough praise on (Skyfire)."

  Information Week - October 31, 2008

• "We're talking about Skyfire, the award winning mobile browser that we can't get enough of!"

  ReadWriteWeb - September 24, 2008

• "Even cooler, with Skyfire I was able to watch content from the popular Fox and NBC-backed online video streaming site Hulu."

  Venture Beat - September 24, 2008

• "We love Skyfire's mobile browser, it does what it's meant to do and more importantly, it adds to your mobile web world with all the dynamic content you're used to on your desktop."

  Engadget Mobile - September 24, 2008

• "Skyfire is going to give mobile browsers like Opera's a run for their money."

  Tech Crunch - August 1, 2008

• "Skyfire mobile browser made a splash with its perfect rendering of web sites that don't survive the mobile experience well"

  GigaOM - April 1, 2008

• "It's hands down the fastest mobile browser we've ever tested for any smart phone OS."

  Laptop Magazine - February 13, 2008

• "An iPhone-worthy browser"
  
  

  USA Today - January 30, 2008

• "Skyfire turns up the heat"

  Into Mobile - January 28, 2008

• "Skyfire topples the iPhone's Safari browser's supremacy."

  Information Week - January 28, 2008

• "Game Changing"

  Engadget Mobile - January 28, 2008