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

submitted 8 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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[–] ParetoOptimalDev@lemmy.today 17 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Disagree. They should be forced to open it up for the community to maintain it when they end support.

[–] themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago

My thoughts exactly. It would be unreasonable to expect full support 14 years after it came out, and it would be unreasonable to expect modern apps to work flawlessly. But it's not unreasonable to say that all the specs mentionned by the commenter can just be considered to all be 0 if the device cant run anything - not because it is physically incapable of it, but because we can't even try.

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 1 points 8 months ago

From my understanding of the quoted text, that's what the person is suggesting. That at a certain point, things shouldn't any longer just work and users should be made to take responsibility.