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Apple Pulls VLC Media Player From AppStore
An anonymous reader writes "Apple has removed VLC media player from the App Store, putting an end to the controversy on the license (in)compatibilities. Indeed, the iTunes page for VLC media player stopped working. VLC developer Rémi Denis-Courmont notes that he is '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.'"
a glimpse of the future - when the only way to get "apps" on any computer have to come from the company store.
It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?
Still, good to know I was right to not bother with the iOS platform. Its fine for some people and I dont dismiss their choice, but I want better developer support in my mobile devices.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
I was a Mac user until recently, and an Apple II user before I started with Macs. But lately, I just absolutely refuse to use anything with their brand on it because of this precise behavior.
All I ask is that the device I pay for allow me to use it as I please instead of requiring the company's permission for each little chunk of code that executes. Give me just that and I'll be happy to buy.
Google is starting to eat Apple's lunch on mobile phones and will do so on the desktop/laptop/tablet if they try to exert such tight control over what their users do on their larger devices. They got away with it on the mobile phones because their interface was so far ahead of anyone else when they got started.
VLC is a nice player on the desktop but there are far more superior solutions for the iPhone/iPad like AirVideo that isn't swamped in petty GPL politics. Plus the VLC interface on the iPhone was pretty bad. I'd be concerned if it was the only game in town. Otherwise, it's a non-story. This is VLC's loss.
It reminds me of Mozilla's backwards, dogmatic horseshit about supporting "open source" and not getting on the h.264 bandwagon with the rest of the grownups, all the while enabling the extremely user-hostile and proprietary Flash. Now their share is slowly being chipped away by Chrome which suffers from none of the political idiocy that comes with some FOSS projects.
Moving on.
This has nothing to do with Apple, rather with VLC. Not sure why people are hating on Apple for this.
What the hell do Apple think they are anyway?
People who respect software licenses when the license holders request software be removed from their store?
But lately, I just absolutely refuse to use anything with their brand on it because of this precise behavior.
You refuse to use Apple because when someone issues a copyright challenge against an App Apple actually listens and removes it from the store?
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
where law gives it to them, and government creates niches where it delegates its power to them. For example, insurance corporations under the new "health care reform" will be happy to serve as the arm of the government that mandates that you should buy their services.
The solution is simple: do not give more power to the government, no matter how "progressive" the goals may seem to be, and you will not have the corporations controlling you. Vote down "progressive" candidates who promise wonders if only their were given power to coerce and "redistribute".
Recall that copyright monopoly grants, which became the primary tool for corporate control of information these days, had started with a grant of power to the government to promote "progress" of "useful arts" for the "public good". In reality it got the corporations as much control as they could technologically get.
The proper title should be "Nokia developer pulls VLC from AppStore".
Rémi alone is to blame for this mess.