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Yay Microsoft for allowing those on Windows! Yay Google for allowing it on Android! Yay Canonical for allowing it on Ubuntu!
When someone makes a bad decision I like to encourage them when they do an about-face.
The bad decision is only being reversed on a case by case basis - this isn't good enough.
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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 contr…
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The risk of government intervention seems the most likely reason to me. Better to maintain control and relax restrictions on your own terms than risk having the terms dictated to you by a judge.
Another reason, which I find more likely is the market pressure Apple is starting to feel from Android and the slew of new iPad-esque Windows 7 tablet devices coming to market soon (even Windows Mobile 7 is a threat). They need to make sure they can compete on the apps-level with the alternatives.
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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.
using html 5 on your ipad ??? ;-) You don't need Flash to watch video on the web. The problem is that most flash content out there is designed for big screens and mouse interaction. Therefore the flash experience on mobile devices is far from optimal.
So combine this with a HDHomeRun, which encodes over-the-air HD and turns it unto a UDP stream. Broadcast TV in your lap. Nice.
Is there a reason there isn't an iPhone version?
Disclaimer: VLC dev here Yes, a very simple one... Someone needs to patch the interface to scale nicely on the iPhone :D You have to understand that we are volunteers working on our free time. People work on what they want/care/need, not based on external thoughts (no market research, no marketing, no boss orders... just fun)
I 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 think it's just a byproduct of a maturing platform. Apple has nurtured the platform into a certain direction and more or less set a standard for what an iOS app is going to be. (look & feel, stability, security, etc) Now that users also have high expectations the App Store is probably starting to police itself to some degree. I'm guessing they reached a point where only 1-2% of apps had any approval issues so it's…
As far as I know, they haven't done it. They have published the guidelines (so developers can self-police as they know now Apple means business) and probably lightened the review (for the reasons you've outlined), but it's not like the AppStore has become a Market-lookalike where an upload gets online within the hour and without any review.
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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.)
Air Video is nice, but you can't store movies for travelling.
So just tried this with divx episodes of mad men, The software was great and syncing files from itunes was a breeze(Same interface as syncing files with pages and keynote). The video itself though was pretty choppy. Not sure how it will work for other filetypes but not super impressed, but I imagine it would be hard to do any better with similar hardware. Kind of really lets you see the value of apples H.264 hardware…
Disclaimer: VLC dev here This is the first version of VLC on iOS and it isn't the best yet, especially for performances... The important was to put one version of VLC out on the AppStore and iterate quickly small updates and fixes... (you should understand this way of thinking, being on HN ;-) ) It will get better and faster.
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Previously asked and answered here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1676756
I sometimes worry that the HN archives will eventually become so authoritative that actual discussion devolves into a chain of deeply idiomatic references to previous discussions, a la Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra .