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VLC - App stores were a mistake (archive.is)

submitted 11 months ago by ozoned@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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VideoLAN @videolan App Stores were a mistake. Currently, we cannot update VLC on Windows Store, and we cannot update VLC on Android Play Store, without reducing security or dropping a lot of users... For now, iOS App Store still allows us to ship for iOS9, but until when?

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[-] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I've scrolled through the F-Droid repositories in Droidify app and see that VLC does not have their own F-Droid repository ? They could create one, and set up mirrors for it, think of a way to cover the hosting costs, why not ? Making yourself depend on Apple and Google and saying that app stores were a mistake feels wrong.

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 3 points 11 months ago

Better to use the official fdroid repo

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[-] answersplease77@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

same thing for linux. their repo's latest version is 1.16 while their github version is 2.4.

Edit: my version numbers are wrong but you get the idea. The repo's version is like 20 releases behind

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[-] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 3 points 11 months ago

Reading this I remembered that stupid apple is now forced to let us sideload on iphones. I just kicked off the ios update to enable it.

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