VLC for iOS is back in App Store – not by VideoLAN • Hacker News Board

Re: VLC for iOS is back in App Store – not by VideoLAN

#11

Post by jamessmith89 » Tue, Feb 03, 2015, 3:28 PM UTC

feepk wrote: post #10

jamessmith89 wrote: post #5

I have a copy of the original VLC App on my iPad, but since I've bought my new iPhone 6, and restored it from iCloud, the official VLC player was missing when the restore was completed, I'm guessing this us to do with it being pulled from the App store at the time. To my surprise, I was looking at the purchased app section on the App store on my phone, and under the area where it lists Apps not on my iPhone I saw VLC…

This is because you downloaded our app a while ago and we did something so you can re-download it to your device now. This is in preparation of our actual release in the next days (we won't release 2.4.0 publicly but 2.4.1 because of a regression).

Will I need to delete 2.4.0 when the new version comes out, or will I be able to just update it as usual from the App store?

Re: VLC for iOS is back in App Store – not by VideoLAN

#12

Post by feepk » Tue, Feb 03, 2015, 3:30 PM UTC

jamessmith89 wrote: post #11

feepk wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is because you downloaded our app a while ago and we did something so you can re-download it to your device now. This is in preparation of our actual release in the next days (we won't release 2.4.0 publicly but 2.4.1 because of a regression).

Will I need to delete 2.4.0 when the new version comes out, or will I be able to just update it as usual from the App store?

Just update as usual :)

Re: VLC for iOS is back in App Store – not by VideoLAN

#13

Post by shinratdr » Thu, Feb 05, 2015, 4:30 AM UTC

I couldn't be less sympathetic. You guys pull VLC for iOS like six months ago, provide no explanation as to why it was pulled, ignore people asking about it on Twitter, and no ETA or the slightest bit of information on whether or not it would return until a month or so ago, and you're surprised that this happened?

Provide a little feedback to the community in the future. Or better yet, just leave the app in the store between updates like a normal dev, and people won't get so frustrated.

Re: VLC for iOS is back in App Store – not by VideoLAN

#14

Post by feepk » Thu, Feb 05, 2015, 3:32 PM UTC

shinratdr wrote: post #13

I couldn't be less sympathetic. You guys pull VLC for iOS like six months ago, provide no explanation as to why it was pulled, ignore people asking about it on Twitter, and no ETA or the slightest bit of information on whether or not it would return until a month or so ago, and you're surprised that this happened? Provide a little feedback to the community in the future. Or better yet, just leave the app in the store…

It is not like we voluntary did either the removal nor being silent about it.