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

submitted 9 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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[–] GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml 9 points 9 months ago (9 children)

With Play App Signing, Google manages and protects your app's signing key for you and uses it to sign optimized, distribution APKs that are generated from your app bundles

You can use google's play app signing. It's not mandatory.

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[–] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

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 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Better to use the official fdroid repo

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

Generally with small time apps, sure, but VLC are trustworthy enough to get it straight from the source. However, it's not like VLC is an app that you need to keep up to date as soon as possible.

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[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 3 points 9 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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