iOS Blog: Popular Media Player App 'VLC' Slowly Returning to the App Store

Popular Media Player App 'VLC' Slowly Returning to the App Store

This is one of the ways that App Store policy is crippling iOS, and I hate seeing it.

Other platforms can have VLC just fine. The licensing issues are between the author and the license holders, but we can continue to use the software while it's worked out.
With iOS, Apple is happy to pull the app at the first sign of a license dispute, and we are denied access to the software. So we end up with crippled garbage like this in the app store because of that.
I love iOS for many reasons, but utterly hate this issue. The ability to legitimately sideload applications would turn iOS from a great operating system to an absolutely amazing one. I know, it'll never happen, but one can wish, right?

To be honest, I'm baffled the EU hasn't already been on that.
I mean, Apple has a strict monopoly on publishing iOS applications to consumers and to just run your own code on your own devices you need to pay for the Apple developer program.
Really surprised this has been going on for ~5 years now with no sign of investigation.
Glassed Silver:mac