Apple removes VLC from the Apple App Store
January 8th, 2011 Leave a comment Visited 875 times, 2 so far today
Apple removes VLC from the Apple App Store
Apple has finally decided to remove VLC player from the Apple App Store.
It had become very hard for this app to stay on the app store due to licensing issues.
VLC is an open source product and Apple’s own terms and conditions with the app store do not comply with these rules.
VLC developers spoke about the new developments:
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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This is just plain dumb. VLC is not my primary media player. But, it is on all of my machines. Why? VLC will play virtually any format. I fool around with a lot of stuff that my major players, WMP, REal, Winamp and, especially Zune, just cannot handle. If I want to see if a video is worth keeping and converting to something like .mp4, VLC is where I can see and hear with complete clarity.
What's the matter Apple? iTunes can't stand the competition? Grow up.
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