Can Qik Go Legit on the iPhone?
By Harry McCracken | Tuesday, June 9, 2009 at 6:00 am
Here’s another question I have as I ruminate on Monday’s WWDC news: Will the fact that the iPhone 3G S has a video camera and Apple is touting video streaming as a major iPhone OS 3.0 feature mean that we’ll finally get an official release of Qik’s nifty videostreaming application on the iPhone App Store? It’s been available on the iPhone for months, but only for jailbroken phones, since Apple hasn’t permitted the camera on the original and 3G models to capture video.
I’m not sure why the iPhone 3G S wouldn’t be Qik-friendly–Apple said today that there will be an API that will allow third-party developers to write apps that make use of the video camera. And while all the examples that Apple has given of streaming video involve stuff coming into the iPhone, the fact that carriers are comfortable with the idea might mean they’d be comfortable with Qik, too. (I don’t think Qik stands much chance of bringing even AT&T’s fragile network to its knees–it’ll likely never be used by as many people as apps for consuming streaming video will be.)
None of which means that the new iPhone hardware and software will make an App Store release of Qik available, of course. We’ll see.
In related news, Qik is announcing today that Qik will ship on all of Nokia’s Symbian S60 phones, starting with the soon-to-be-released N97. Score one for the N97, especially if there’s no good news about Qik on the iPhone in the immediate future…
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June 20th, 2009 at 11:25 am[…] Before Apple unveiled the 3G S, there were tantalizing rumors that it would come with a mobile version of iMovie. It doesn’t, but it does let you trim movies on the phone before you transfer them to your PC or Mac. Video syncing is handled through iPhoto. (I’m still hoping that Apple will allow applications such as Qik to enable live video streaming over the Internet.) […]
June 11th, 2009 at 7:17 pm
Seems like it may be pushing it… anyways…You guys should check this out, Second Voice is a service that offeres you to have 2 cell phone numbers and 2 voice mails in one phone. Take a look, thought it might be interesting.
http://www.secondvoice.com
May 24th, 2010 at 9:47 pm
i always watch streaming videos online, they are sort of my past time.–,
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