VLC On iPad? Only If It Escapes Apple's Ban-Hammer

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Wednesday, September 8th, 2010


App developer Applidium has been working for a few months on an iPad port of the popular, open-source, plays-anything VLC. They’ve submitted it for approval to Apple, but I really don’t know what its chances are.

Will it be rejected on the grounds of duplicating functionality? VLC certainly does more and plays more formats, but Apple may just not care. We’ll find out soon…

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