Apple removes VLC app from App Store, GPL to blame

User Comments: 9

1. January 10, 2011 12:49 PM
   

   mario, TechSpot Developer, said:

   It would also be good to point out that Rémi Denis-Courmont works for Nokia.

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2. January 10, 2011 4:02 PM
   gwailo247, TechSpot Chancellor, said:

   marioestrada said:

   It would also be good to point out that Rémi Denis-Courmont works for Nokia.

   Please elaborate further.

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3. January 12, 2011 8:39 PM
   

   Tedster, Techspot old timer....., said:

   another reason why not to get the icrap. no flash, no vlc, no non-approved apple aps......

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4. May 11, 2012 12:36 AM
   Guest said:

   More like Apple to blame

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5. May 11, 2012 12:52 AM
   

   captaincranky, TechSpot Addict, said:

   It would also be good to point out that Rémi Denis-Courmont works for Nokia.

   What does that even have to do with this issue? And that question is coming from someone who usually doesn't know or care, what the thread topic even is.

   Steve Jobs is reaching out from the grave to smite his competition? VLP is malware maybe? Gimme a break.

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6. May 11, 2012 1:58 PM
   

   SNGX1275, TS Special Forces, said:

   another reason why not to get the icrap. no flash, no vlc, no non-approved apple aps......

   What?

   You can't get it from the App Store anymore. Thats it. You can still download it and install it on your own (just like Windows users have to do).

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7. May 11, 2012 2:04 PM
   

   captaincranky, TechSpot Addict, said:

   What?

   You can't get it from the App Store anymore. Thats it. You can still download it and install it on your own (just like Windows users have to do).

   Well then, in that light, it makes perfect sense for Apple to remove it. After all, why would Apple allow you access to a free app that works great, when they could sell you one that may, or may not?

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8. May 11, 2012 2:13 PM
   

   SNGX1275, TS Special Forces, said:

   That is a valid point. Apple provides the App Store for convience, and they approve, they get to decide, what goes there. If you don't like it, then ok, get the app elsewhere.

   This is essentially bitching about nothing. Nobody has an 'app store' for Windows (yet). But, lets say someone did, say TheHun did. Now TheHun has all kinds of apps, almost every program you can get for windows they have. But they don't have them all. Would there be outrage? No, because people get their apps from the source. Apple is bypassing the source to make it more convenient, and they have rules - don't like the rules ok.

   You can still get it the way you would have before the concept of an 'app store' even existed. This is manufactured outrage for site hits.

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9. May 11, 2012 4:56 PM
   

   captaincranky, TechSpot Addict, said:

   That is a valid point. Apple provides the App Store for convience, and they approve, they get to decide, what goes there. If you don't like it, then ok, get the app elsewhere.

   Unfortunately, this just corroborates the opinion many tech savvy Windows users have about a large portion of Apple's consumer base. They're well dressed enough, but babes in the woods when being asked to deal with technology beyond the original point of purchase, "you hand the clerk your credit card, he, (or she), hands you the box", paradigm.

   This is essentially bitching about nothing.

   We'll get into that in just a minute.

   This is manufactured outrage for site hits.

   See, I told you we'd get into that in just a minute.

   But I must say, you're painting with a fairly wide brush with that statement.

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