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by pederb72 5768 days ago
Using your logic VLC shouldn't release a Windows version since Linux is more open than Windows. I'm sorry, the world just doesn't work like that.

Besides, even with Android NDK it's probably easier to port VLC to iOS than to Android?
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jbk 5768 days ago
VideoLAN chairman and VLC developer here.

This is exactly the point. Porting VLC from MacOS X to iOS is more or less just a rewrite of the audio and video outputs (sinks). Plus an interface, of course...

Porting to Android is taking longer and is, of course, on the way...

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drivebyacct2 5768 days ago
Cool. Thanks for the reply. Any details on why the Android port is taking longer or why it's so much easier to port to iOS? Maybe a VLC blog post or something?
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jbk 5768 days ago
iOS is very similar to Mac OS X, where VLC runs already...

Android is very different from usual Linux, using a different libc and libraries than normal GNU/Linux and requires Java bindings to run...

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drivebyacct2 5768 days ago
I'm impressed that Apple has maintained such consistency across the desktop/mobile operating systems. That is an interesting advantage of iOS that I pretty rarely see mentioned. Thanks for your thoughts.
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drivebyacct2 5768 days ago
Not at all. Windows isn't a walled garden, Windows doesn't have a history of killing off applications that Microsoft doesn't like or sees as competition, etc.

I didn't say they shouldn't have an iOS release. This in-between-the-lines reading and putting words in my mouth and downmodding me for it is disappointing.

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Qz 5768 days ago
Netscape much?

Although I mostly agree.

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