Skyfire {Official END of 1.5} - Page 2

**santod** · #11 (**permalink**) 11-14-2010, 02:01 AM

Todays word: from Dave Burchell, community manager @ Skyfire

"We should have an update on Symbian and WinMo next week."

That's nice, since they banned me until the 18th.
Must have figured they would just shut me up until they could figure out how to run a forum and a server at the same time.

puff601 · #12 (**permalink**) 11-14-2010, 02:36 AM

screw skyfire... i stopped using skyfire months ago and started using uzard. after using uzard, i didnt plan on using skyfire anymore anyways but this puts the nail in the coffin. even if they do start back allowing wm and symbian to use their servers, i will never use skyfire again... this confusion could have all been avoided or not have been as bad if they would have simply gave wm and symbian users some sort of explanation BEFORE blocking the servers or whatever.

demonlordoftheround · #13 (**permalink**) 11-14-2010, 10:41 AM

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We were kicked out of the party after bringing the hot chicks. Just wait, they are going to have to make some serious upgrades to keep up with demand once they start selling the app again. the winmo and symbian users were a drop in the bucket compared to the tsunami that is headed their way.

**shaggylive** · #14 (**permalink**) 11-14-2010, 01:14 PM

I noticed this morning while updating my apps (app2date, marketplace, & Omarket) that skyfire is the 4th most popular free app in Microsoft's marketplace.

demonlordoftheround · #15 (**permalink**) 11-14-2010, 07:33 PM

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Wow. And still they dumped us.

**Straitup27** · #16 (**permalink**) 11-14-2010, 08:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by santod

Todays word: from Dave Burchell, community manager @ Skyfire

"We should have an update on Symbian and WinMo next week."

That's nice, since they banned me until the 18th.
Must have figured they would just shut me up until they could figure out how to run a forum and a server at the same time.

DAMN I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THEY DID IT

Quote:

Originally Posted by demonlordoftheround

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We were kicked out of the party after bringing the hot chicks. .

THATS FUNNY!!!

Quote:

Originally Posted by demonlordoftheround

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Wow. And still they dumped us.

as is this too!! lol

**santod** · #17 (**permalink**) 11-16-2010, 04:18 AM

OK, finally something official
Was that so hard guys?? Took long enough.
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Skyfire 2.0 is the world’s first hybrid browser, using the best of the device’s native browser, and adding a cloud “booster engine” for extra features like video and social networking. It is our flagship go-forward product, as we’ve reported publicly for months, since our Android launch.
With that in mind, we are announcing that we will complete the phase out of our legacy v1.0 product on Windows Mobile and Symbian on December 31st, 2010 for remaining countries. This two-year old product used a “proxy browser” approach which is no longer our vision. It was a revolutionary product when introduced and offered for free, but the fast-moving mobile market has changed significantly since 2007, and as a small tech start-up, we need to keep innovating forward.
Our new 2.0 product is built for the next generation of smartphones and tablets with full support for html5, offline browsing, javascript, WebKit, and full-screen video. The 2.0 architecture is exponentially more data efficient as well, and better fits the technology roadmaps of our B2B customers (wireless carriers and handset makers).
This was a very difficult decision for us. We put our hearts and souls into the 1.0 product and greatly value the many Skyfire fans who used the product and provided us with invaluable feedback during this intensive research & development phase of our company. We experimented with ways to charge for the product (in certain international test markets) so that existing Windows Mobile and Symbian users could continue to use the service, but the payment mechanisms were very cumbersome and the piracy rates were so high on those OS platforms that we could not make it work. More importantly, we faced a decision point: If we were to begin charging money for a product, we had to commit to multiple years of support and enhancement of the product. It would not be the ethical thing to do to start down that path, given that we would not expect enough revenue to make that sustainable on the legacy 1.0 product, and we can no longer subsidize it. The right thing we decided was to focus on 2.0 and beyond.
We do expect to bring Skyfire 2.0 to additional platforms, and have begun discussions with some carriers and OEMs to decide which will be our next OS. Microsoft’s new Windows Phone 7 and Nokia’s MeeGo platform are both shaping up as platforms with a lot of potential and the recent launch of the new Blackberry OS 6 with a WebKit browser core makes for interesting potential for a future release of Skyfire 2.0. We value feedback from our users, so please let us know what platform you would like to see Skyfire on next and just as importantly let your wireless carrier know that you want Skyfire!
Thanks to all of our fans, new and old, for their support. We’re a small 35-person development shop, so all the enthusiasm for Skyfire has been gratifying for all of the engineers here in Mountain View.
Jeff Glueck, CEO

demonlordoftheround · #18 (**permalink**) 11-16-2010, 08:56 AM

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I will never use skyfire again, period.

**InvincibleLiving** · #19 (**permalink**) 11-16-2010, 09:55 AM

Likewise...it was just a bandaid solution for streaming live feeds, but I never could get over the grainy browser quality... the resolutions on our screens were just too unforgiving for that to not be resolved.

yankees45us · #20 (**permalink**) 11-20-2010, 01:55 AM

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Originally Posted by ooxteme

The point you are missing here is that WE, WINMO users alpha and beta tested this freaking thing and made it what it is today. Then they just say O WELL sorry guys but we no longer support your os. They didnt even say they were doing it they just did it ang that my friend is just absolute BULLSH*T if you ask me!!

Boy the android threads must be dead for you to be over here!!!! Back to the bandwagon you go!!!!

The reason I am on this thread is because I still have a tp2. Also how is me using android getting back on the bandwagon? Makes no sense. Plus last time I checked anyone can take part in any thread.

Anyway, back to the topic, I agree with most that its unfair for them to discontinue support or whatever it is they are doing but the fact of the matter is that they are not going to change their minds with wp7 being released.

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