Too bad we can't remotely access video files on the computer.
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Apple Approves VLC For iPad
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Re: Apple Approves VLC For iPad
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Clause 6 of the GPLv2 says that you "cannot impose any further restrictions" on recipients of the software. One possible interpretation of this clause is that the App Store terms of service impose further restrictions on recipients. Thus authors of GPL software might have a basis to object to other people distributing their software through the App Store, even if full source is provided. ...at least, this was the rat…
Apple doesn't own any rights to the VLC application being distributed. I thus see no legal basis for them to impose any restrictions, try as they might. That clause in the GPL seems intended to cover distribution of a derived work, where the distributor owns the rights to additions they have made. Edit: IANAL
My understanding was that to publish to the app store, the publishing developer must agree to certain GPL-incompatible terms and restrictions. Apple seems to think that their terms have been fulfilled but FSF has said that GPL and App Store terms seem to conflict. I think Apple is in the clear wrt GPL but the publishing developer may have violated its terms.
Re: Apple Approves VLC For iPad
#64Too bad we can't remotely access video files on the computer.
For that, Air Video has worked great for me. (There's a free version that shows up to N files in a folder, if you want to try it out first.)
Or just use Plex - a bit smarter than AIR Video - it includes placeholders so you can stop watching in the living room (via computer) and start from the same spot in bed (via iPad/iPhone).
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I doubt WP7 is even on Apple's radar. My favorite theory is that now everyone can see that Flash for phones sucks so there's no need to ban it; it will fail on its own. That and the FTC investigation.
except that it doesn't. Flash works wonderfully well on my Android.
I don't buy it ... on my iPhone I only have apps that have been approved prior to this change of policy, and the battery is piss-poor already.
Having owned multiple lower-end Nokias + I currently also have one E71 + one N97 ... I kind of assumed the iPhone's battery can last for 2 days or even 3 if I'm only using it for phone calls.
Phones like the iPhone / Motorola Droid ... are too powerful for their own good. If I touch it in any way other than making simple phone calls, or if I'm activating 3G, it lasts less than 24 hours. When playing with it, then it doesn't last more than 3 hours.
So sorry, but I don't buy that Flash works wonderfully well, quite the contrary ... but as I said before, it's better to just let customers decide for themselves and good devs can probably create good apps even with Flash, and banning alternative frameworks makes no sens.
The other argument was that it's better for apps to use native UI elements, instead of dropping to a common denominator. Personally I get annoyed when an iPhone app doesn't have standard behavior when interacting with it, and it's a lot more annoying than on a desktop because of the small screen real-estate ... so that demo of the Flash app that ran without changes on iPhone / Android wasn't very flattering.
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#66I would be really interested to know what triggered that massive policy change. (Not just VLC but also all the other stuff.) It came out of nowhere. No advance warning, no step by step relaxation, no big reveal. Fairly recently Steve Jobs defended Apple’s old App Store policy [+] – just imagine the hearts and minds Apple could have won if Jobs had announced their big policy change right then and added a big mea culpa…
I feel like this is exactly how Apple responded to the whole iPhone 4 antenna problem: by not really mentioning it, acting as if there were no big issues, and then silently providing a fix. There seems to be a pattern here.
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I think this is only applicable to Windows, MS said GPL3 is banned in Windows 7, Apple just reject what he doesn't like.
Could you please help me find some links on the GPL3 ban in Windows 7?
I think he means Windows Phone 7
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/dfhyw/microsoft...
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except that it doesn't. Flash works wonderfully well on my Android.
I don't buy it ... on my iPhone I only have apps that have been approved prior to this change of policy, and the battery is piss-poor already. Having owned multiple lower-end Nokias + I currently also have one E71 + one N97 ... I kind of assumed the iPhone's battery can last for 2 days or even 3 if I'm only using it for phone calls. Phones like the iPhone / Motorola Droid ... are too powerful for their own good. If I…
Dude, you may not buy it all you want - I just watched hour worth of cartoons from YouTube with my daghter so I don't care.
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Dude, my 3 year old Nokia N810 with 400mhz CPU plays all kinds of SD video with MPlayer just fine.
The VLC application currently on the app store doesn't have ARM assembler optimisations enabled. Hopefully that will be fixed in an update. MPlayer on the N810 will be using some assembler optimisations. I strongly doubt the "all kinds of SD" claim, however. There is simply no way that CPU will be capable of decoding a typical SD H.264 video. MPEG2 or MPEG4-ASP may work if you're lucky.
Why would they release non-optimized? Fail fast?
H.264 is probably hard indeed, but with right command line optimizations doable.
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#70This is amazing news; I feel like Apple's lifting of restrictions has something to do with modifying your phone's software now being legal in the US. It's probably only beneficial to them to have all of this content available through their App Store outlet if people can easily get it anyway.
I think you greatly overestimate the percentage of iOS users that even know what jailbreaking is.
I don't know about that. I know a lot of people with jailbroken iPhones, whom we'd all think of as "computer-illiterate" at best. Jailbreaking is very much a mainstream activity these days.
Edit: I'll go so far as to speculate that the large proportion of jailbroken iOS devices is what is driving the glasnost at Apple lately. They are faced with keeping some control over their customers's devices, or losing the control they still have. With widespread jailbreaking, the market has decisively rejected Apple's attempt at total control, while simultaneously embracing the products themselves.