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VLC for iPhone and iPad get pulled from the App Store
If you happened to head to the App Store this morning to search for, say, a new media player with support for a number of video formats, you may have noticed something: VLC is no longer available. A quick search returns several remote apps, but the recently-released player itself is nowhere to be found -- the VLC app has, in fact, been removed from the App Store.Ultimately, it appears as though the GPL "licensing incompatibilities" which some people worried about when VLC for iOS debuted are to blame -- but whether it was Apple or Applidium who removed the app is not yet known. The takedown may, however, have more to do with Denis-Courmant's (who happens to work for Nokia) campaign against Apple -- as our friends at TUAW speculate.
Whatever the reason, it's iOS users who lose out in the end.
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Subscribe to commentsOUCHU GOT MEJan 8th 2011 10:44AM
Apple + IOS = walled garden = sucks!
BrianJan 8th 2011 10:57AM
Apple is the North Korea of internet companies.
MyriaJan 8th 2011 10:59AM
To be honest, on the iPad VLC wasn't all that useful -- at least not in my experience with it. Unlike the desktop version it had problems with numerous files I tried to play and, thanks to Apple habitual rectal-cranial inversion, it lacked access to hardware accel so you had to transcode higher rez stuff anyway. If I'm going to do that I may as well transcode it into something Apple's painfully limited player with it's laughably crappy interface can handle, just to save myself space.
MitchRapp81Jan 8th 2011 7:59PM
You guys are trying to reason with APPLE ... no such thing. I hear the App Store is hell. Cool apps are expensive and the BEST apps aren't even on it (let's face it, stock Android apps are the bomb)
MikeJan 10th 2011 12:46PM
To me it seems like the people who ported VLC disrespected the GPL by even putting it in the App Store, and I'm surprised it lasted as long as it did. So... IMO no big loss philosophically. And ultimately, it didn't work worth a crap anyway, so I can't say it's a big loss functionally either. For anyone who wants to watch videos on the iPad/iPhone, I do recommend oPlayer, it works pretty well. Not free, but there's an ad-supported free version.
TikiFeb 7th 2011 12:00AM
So if I allready have the VLC app, does that mean I can keep it, or does it get deleted or what?