Although the application skyfire it "lasted" only 5 hours in the AppStore on the first day when it was launched, being then reintroduced only for AppStores in certain countries, iATA that the application managed to generate in the first weekend receipts of over 1 million dollars. At the moment, the SkyFire application for iOS is the only paid version of the browser because the versions for Android/Symbian or Windows Mobile are 100% free. The rationale behind this measure has its roots in the technology implemented by SkyFire to allow iDevice users to watch movies with flash content, a technology that required a fairly large investment and that operates on the basis of servers that require maintenance.
The application costs $2.99 in the US AppStore and in the first weekend it sold more than 300.000 copies, so it generated revenues of more than 1 million dollars, of which 70% belong to the SkyFire company. The popularity of this application is a new proof of the fact that iDevices users want to be able to see flash content on their own terminals, but we all know that this will never happen.
