The VLC Media Player is set to make a return to Apple’s iOS store, several months on from when it was mysteriously pulled from the app store in late September. The VLC Media Player is very popular among users who play and stream videos. Its primary attraction point? With the help of add-ons, the media player can handle practically every video file type out there.
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) users can now rejoice as Felix Paul Kuehne, a lead developer at VideoLan, posted on the VideoLan forums last Monday that the new VLC application had been approved by Apple and will be up on the market shortly, although the exact date cannot be finalized due to Apple Connect’s holiday shutdown.
No one ever explained why VLC Media Player was taken off the iOS store. Perhaps not coincidentally, it was pulled shortly after the iOS 8 was released earlier this year. Users who had already downloaded the application could still use it and all its features, but new Apple users no longer had access.
This isn’t the first time that VLC was pulled from the Apple iOS Store, either. It has previously violated Apple’s strict guidelines for its apps and has been removed a number of times previously. On each occasion, VideoLan was happy to comply, and put up the compliant version on the market as soon as possible.
That all is set to change now – but the release date cannot yet be confirmed. Users do have the option of other similar apps, such as InFuse – all of its options may be unlocked with $7.
VLC is VideoLan’s free open-source multimedia platform also plying its trade on Apple’s iOS, Microsoft Corporation’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows, Google Inc’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android, and many more operating systems.
Expect to see the VLC Media Player back on the App Store early next year.
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