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Focus, Geography, and Skyfire 1.0
by Jeff Glueck | June 29th, 2010
Focus is critical for any start-up, especially one growing as
fast as Skyfire. We ’ve grown users 400% in the last year.
We’ve launched Skyfire 2.0, which is an entirely new
architecture and our flagship going forward. We added some
600,000 users on Android in our first few weeks, and Skyfire
2.0 for iPhone and iOS is coming soon for submission to the
Apple AppStore. Meanwhile, we ’ve been approached by a
number of major wireless operators and handset vendors
about embedding Skyfire 2.0 into their default browsers, out
of the box.
Our team took a hard look at where we could double down
our limited resources on these “hockey stick” growth
opportunities, and on Skyfire 2.0.
As a result, we have decided to stop all future development
on the old “proxy” Skyfire 1.0 (including version 1.5)
architecture, and focus on the 2.0 product, which is our
future. With 2.0, Skyfire has introduced the first “hybrid
browser” in the world, combining the best of native webkit
rendering with the best of cloud web services, including our
famed rich media engine, mash-ups, and more.
Yesterday we began notifying 1.0 users outside of North
America and Western Europe that we will phase out the 1.0
service. Because 1.0 is only on Windows Mobile and Symbian,
only those handsets are affected. Our 2.0 product is growing
incredibly fast and continues worldwide. Skyfire 1.X will no
longer be supported outside of North America and Western
Europe effective July 1st, 2010.
We will bring Skyfire 2.0 to more operating systems over the
next year, after Android and iPhone. The exact sequence will
depend in part on discussions underway with potential OEM
partners, to embed the SkyBar service on devices “out of the
box,” as part of the default browser. Skyfire 2.0 is not a
browser as much as it is a “cloud service” that boosts the
performance and features of the native browser on any
device. When you download Skyfire 2.0 as a consumer, you
get everything your default browser would do, and more.
Skyfire has been a free, ad-supported app, and as such, it
does factor into our decision that the cost of operating the 2.0
product runs a fraction of Skyfire 1.0 per user. 2.0 is not a
proxy; only SkyBar services call on our cloud data centers, not
the basic page load.
As an ad-supported app, we have seen that in Asia, the Middle
East, Africa, and other emerging markets, the mobile ad
market and search monetization are very early stage. They
are not mature enough to support the Skyfire 1.0 service
operating cost. Skyfire had only officially-supported North
America and Western Europe launches, but users in over 150
additional countries had “unofficially” downloaded the
product. It was time to focus our resources on officially-
supported countries, and on Skyfire 2.0 going forward.
We know this decision is an inconvenience to many Skyfire
1.5 users in emerging markets, and while it ’s a free service,
we appreciate how important and valuable Skyfire has
become to people. We have read the many impassioned
messages from users in affected countries, and the choice to
focus on our flagship product does involve trade-offs which
are never easy. In the book Innovator ’s Dilemma, Clayton
Christianson argued the biggest mistake a company can
make is straddling its original product and its next-gen
product. With 2.0, Skyfire is going all out to support webkit,
html5, and cutting-edge web services. In the long run,
everyone will be better off if Skyfire focuses its resources on
innovating our flagship product for years to come, bringing it
to more users, across the most popular smartphone and
multimedia phone platforms.
So stay tuned – there’s lots of good 2.0 product news to
come….
- Jeff Glueck, CEO of Skyfire
Note: Skyfire 1.0 and 1.5 will remain available as a free service
in the following countries after July 1st: United States, U.K.,
Canada, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, France, Germany, Belgium,
Italy, Finland, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland,
Korea and Taiwan.
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