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Re:VLC Submits iPad App to App Store by drivebyacct2 on Thursday September 09, 2010 @04:23PM (#1676789)
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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Re:VLC Submits iPad App to App Store by jbk on Thursday September 09, 2010 @06:03PM (#1677114)
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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Re:VLC Submits iPad App to App Store by drivebyacct2 on Thursday September 09, 2010 @07:20PM (#1677304)
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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