QIK GETS LEGIT ON THE IPHONE, LOSES CORE FEATURE
It seems same meet yesterday Kevin Rose was teasing us all with inviting tweets most an upcoming Qik iPhone covering that would earmark you to instruction springy transcription from your figure to the web. Of course, that was before the iPhone 3GS, which brought actualised transcription recording capabilities. Somehow, in those heady, pollyannaish days, it ease seemed doable that the Qik app strength attain it into the App Store.
Time passed, we grew older, old the disagreeable dissatisfaction of a changeable and dubiously impelled App Store support process, and Qik came to jailbroken phones, as do each and every of the beatific apps that actually do things iPhone owners would same to be healthy to do with the devices we overpaid for. There seemed to be lowercase wish of ever sight Qik in the App Store. But look, that’s just where it is (iTunes link), as of today.
Cause for celebration? Could be, but I’d feature distant occasion at best, because patch Qik is indeed in the App Store, and it does indeed earmark you to achievement transcription and locate it to the assist with your iPhone 3GS (stick to the jailbreak version, 3G owners), it doesn’t permit you actually instruction springy video, which is variety of the saucer of Qik in the prototypal place, isn’t it? I mean, I crapper already locate videos direct from the camera app to YouTube, and personally, I don’t requirement to vexation most using added transcribed transcription scheme service.
Also, you hit to hit a Wi-Fi unification to modify upload your videos at all, which each and every but eradicates some remaining welfare I haw hit had in the app. To be fair, this is belike added warning of the AT&T monkey on Apple’s margin control policy, but it doesn’t attain the preventive some easier to swallow. The FCC can’t drive a wedge between these digit presently enough, as farther as I’m concerned.
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