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MplayerX Leaving Mac App Store

Posted by timothy on from the kicked-out-of-the-hothouse dept.

New submitter technonono writes "MplayerX, a popular and free video player app on Mac OSX, is now leaving Mac App Store 'after arguing with Apple for three months.' The developer claims that Apple's sandboxing policies would strip the app into 'another lame Quicktime X,' which is unacceptable. The app is releasing updates on its own site, where users who bought it from the App Store would most likely never notice them. The situation was 'foretold' by Marco Arment, at least for one app."

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  1. Please consider Mitt Romney by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Please consider Mitt Romney when you vote for president in November. The current administration (Barack Hussein Obama) has instituted failed policies that have driven the unemployment rate to 8.2% and has left millions of your fellow Americans without jobs. On top of that, he has increased the food stamp handouts and welfare roles with the intent to make people dependent on an enormous federal government. He has attempted to destroy our nations economy and is actively hostile to corporations or any people of means, as they do not fit into his 'socialistic vision' for America. Mitt will return our economy to its former vim and vigor, and we can all hope to attain what he has already done. We cannot afford four more years of economic destruction and becoming reliant on Big Brother Government policies. It would be our undoing. Thank you for your consideration.

    1. Re:Please consider Mitt Romney by petteyg359 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Mitt will return our economy to its former vim

      Mittens is too dumb to understand vim. Even nano with full screen-wasting help bars would probably be too confusing for him.

    2. Re:Please consider Mitt Romney by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      You guys have to be extremely stupid if you elect Mitt Romney. -The rest of the world.

    3. Re:Please consider Mitt Romney by rickb928 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      "If we had it my way anyone making more then they truly need was be forced to give the money away to people who need it."

      Do you truly need a computer? If you truly believe what you wrote, sell it, give the money to the poor, and either go to the library and log on to /. there, or perhaps save the time and expense and serve the poor.

      If you truly believe what you wrote. If you're anything like the rest of the 98%, you're 98% bullshit.

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    4. Re:Please consider Mitt Romney by rickb928 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      From the DOL

      Unemployment rates:

      September 2008, 6.1%
      January 2009, 7.8%
      October 2009, 10.0%
      July 2012, 8.3%

      Any questions? No, I didn't think so. Go occupy something.

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    5. Re:Please consider Mitt Romney by _KiTA_ · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Please consider Barack Obama when you vote for president in November. The other guy's fans spam Slashdot first posts with far right conspiracy theories and lies. We cannot afford four more years of wingnut first post trolling and becoming reliant on -1, Offtopic moderation. It would be our undoing. Thank you for your consideration.

    6. Re:Please consider Mitt Romney by siride · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      And the rates were magically supposed to go down in the middle of a bad recession just because Obama moved into the White House in January 2009? The shit hadn't even fully hit the fan by then.

      Lemme guess, you're one of those people who says that Obama took gas prices from 1.98 to almost 4.00, right?

    7. Re:Please consider Mitt Romney by Kenja · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Don't blame me i voted for Kodos.

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    8. Re:Please consider Mitt Romney by errandum · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      There are studies that show that anything over a certain limit (I think something in the lines of over 70000 a year) money stops being a motivation to work harder and stars being a luxury. I do not agree that it should be more than they need, but more than they can conceivably spend on anything normal while others starve. I do consider computer normal, same as a good house or a good car, but a 20ft yatch is not normal and no one should have one for pleasure while people starve.

      But hey, that's me. You truly think that the billions spent on taxes by the rich will create jobs? They might create jobs oversees where they invest, but very little of that stays in America. That, and new mansions, but very few jobs. Less jobs than a strong middle class can create (more people consuming, more production is needed, more jobs are created).

    9. Re:Please consider Mitt Romney by strack · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      well then, i guess thats a argument for tariffs, so the US dosent have to compete with exploitative labor practices and wages in countries that dont give a crap about their workers. and if rich people cant undermine fair labor laws by importing the products of virtual slave labor to compete with locally made goods, theyll have to invest in local production, increasing employment and strengthening that middle class your so enthusiastic about.

  2. Poor Mitt by fm6 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What an inept campaign staff Mitt Romney has. Gaff after gaff, and now we're dealing with endless boilerplate spams from his "social media" people. Really, conspicuously lame. Kind of undercuts his basic argument, that we should vote for him because he's a good manager. In fact, he makes me think of every bad manager I've ever worked for.

    1. Re:Poor Mitt by ColdWetDog · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Kind of undercuts his basic argument, that we should vote for him because he's a good manager. In fact, he makes me think of every bad manager I've ever worked for.

      Meet the new boss, same as your old boss.

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  3. Re:Procrastination by stephanruby · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    If MplayerX won't sell in the app store, some other product will fill the void in that market.

    Yes, Android is filling that need as we speak.