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VLC beta app on Android, but whatever happen to the one we had on the app store?

aziatiklover

aziatiklover

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So with the BS lawsuit that happened with our free VLC app in the app store while back.

How come Android can get it without having any lawsuit issue and what not! :eek: :mad:
 
aziatiklover said:
So with the BS lawsuit that happened with our free VLC app in the app store while back.

How come Android can get it without having any lawsuit issue and what not! :eek: :mad:
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Apple removed it in January of last year...here is the quote from one of the original creators of the VLC open platform:
At last, Apple has removed VLC media player from its application store. Thus the incompatibility between the GNU General Public License and the AppStore terms of use is resolved – the hard way. I am not going to pity the owners of iDevices, and not even the MobileVLC developers who doubtless wasted a lot of their time. This end should not have come to a surprise to anyone.
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Licensing issues. VLC is open source, and is licensed under the GNU General Public License. This means you're legally allowed to install it on as many machines as many times as you like. When it was available on the App Store, it was tied to Apple's licensing agreement, which only allows you to install apps tied to your account on X amount of devices.

The GNU people didn't like it, and couldn't come to an agreement with Apple, so pfft...away it went. Shame really. It was, by and far, the best video player app available on iOS.
 
One of the things I miss when I sold my iPad 1 and bought the iPad 3. I couldn't get the app anymore. It really was a great app, it was 1 or 2 updates away from perfection. There have been other good video player apps that have appeared since then, and the VLC app is available to those people who jailbreak.
 
aziatiklover said:
So with the BS lawsuit that happened with our free VLC app in the app store while back.

How come Android can get it without having any lawsuit issue and what not! :eek: :mad:
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Guys don't mourn the loss of this app. I'm sorry to say that it's pretty weak on iOS compared to some other titles. There is absolutely no point in using it, compared to the better players.

See for example my post on all this at https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/14835589/ . Note that that's an answer to a more or less personal attack (a forum member has questioned my ability to evaluate media players), hence the heated style.
 
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