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		ivoire on Dec 17, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: VLC desperately needs a Mac OS developer to help o... This sentence means that some people in the Apple compagnie doesn't really like VLC. So they remove VLC from the offcial Apple download page without any explanation. We don't understand why as some other people in Apple do really like VLC...

mustpax on Dec 17, 2009 [–]

The answer is simple really. They want to:

A) push their now-free QuickTime X player, along with the H.264 codec.

B) push consumers towards consuming more video through iTunes instead of other, um, ad-hoc channels.

I love VLC, but I can see how Apple has a competitive interest in not actively promoting VLC.

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