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!
Please bear with us as we bring our capacity in line with the incredible demand – stay tuned.
Thanks, Robert.
Skyfire: Spinning a Potential Disaster into a Great Story While Creating Demand and Urgency in the Process
November 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment
I just read a post (below) about how Skyfire “sold out” in the Apple App Store. I was clearly taken aback because how is it possible that a digital product could sell out. As you can read below demand for their app clearly out stripped the “supply” of their infrastructure.
In case you don’t know what skyfire is, it’s an alternative browser for iOS that allows you to play flash by transcoding it on the fly into a non-banned format stream. Pretty nifty.
When they do start releasing more batches, users will no doubt jump on the chance to buy it before it “sells out” again, thus creating more demand and urgency in a possibly repeating cycle. Bravo.
From the Skyfire blog:
Best thing I’ve seen come out of @foursquare in a long time. ‘Bout time & congrats
September 7, 2010 By 1 Comment
A Distilled List of iPhone and iPad Apps
July 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment
A friend has finally upgraded to an iPhone and asked me to compile a list of iPhone apps that I regularly use. When it is was done I thought it worth sharing.
So, in addition to the much used default apps (Mail, Safari, Maps, Calendar, Contacts, Photos, Clock, Settings, App Store), here are, in no particular order, the best free and paid apps I’ve downloaded and use:
Note, several of these apps attain true awesomeness and usefulness when linked to cloud services or because they sync across multiple platform and devices.
Phone and Voice:
Ribbit
Jott
Ribbit
Jott
Skype
Google Voice (web shortcut but I use it enough to warrant a mention)
Weather:
Weatherbug
Utilities:
Light
TotalBaby
Downloader
Dropbox
Quickmark
TextExpander
Google Earth
Photography:
Hispstamatic
CameraBag
Autostitch
Flickr
Photoforge
CameraBag
Autostitch
Flickr
Photoforge
Camera Genius
Reading:
Instapaper Pro
NYTimes
Goodreader
Kindle
iBooks
Reeder
NYTimes
Goodreader
Kindle
iBooks
Reeder
Audio and Video:
Last.fm
Pandora
Shazam
Pandora
Shazam
iMovie
Boxee
Food and Drink + Guides:
Productivity:
SplashID
SplashShopper
Evernote
Toodledo
OmniFocus
FMtouch
SplashShopper
Evernote
Toodledo
OmniFocus
FMtouch
iFlash
Shoeboxed
Timebridge
Social:
Osfoora
Foursquare
LinkedIn
Facebook
GetGlue
Blockchalk
Boxcar
Bump
Stickybits
Hot Potato
Financial:
YNAB
MyWireless from AT&T
eTrade
Currency
eTrade
Currency
Travel and Getting Around:
Cabsense
NYCmate
Citytransit
Taxi
Tripit
Zipcar
Transit Maps
NYCmate
Citytransit
Taxi
Tripit
Zipcar
Transit Maps
Shopping:
Gilt
Redlaser
Hunchable Design:
Redlaser
Hunchable Design:
Adobe Ideas
Movies:
Fandango
IMDB
IMDB
Sports:
ESPN Scorecenter
Sleeping and Relaxation:
Pzizz Energizer
Pzizz Sleep
Asleep
iPad Only:
All the aforementioned apps’ HD iPad versions
iThoughts HD
Adobe Ideas (mentioning this a second time because it’s so much better and more useful on an iPad)
Corkulous
Penultimate
Prompster
Pages
Numbers
Keynote
NYTimes Editor’s Choice
Financial Times Mobile Edition
Apollo News
Uzu
Hulu Plus
Starmap HD
Da Vinci HD
Magic Window
Maybe I’ll get to describing these one day or even write about my use cases but for now names will have to do.
Also, I know I have omitted some apps that I have installed and occasionally use, or are city specific (like the city apps I load when I travel) but I needed to trim the list a bit 
