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MiTube app flies high but is quickly shot down

by Mel Martin Aug 5th 2010 at 7:30PM

You kinda knew it was going to happen. Earlier this week the app store approved MiTube, a YouTube app that allowed you to both view and download videos. Sounded like a great idea, and the app was free, but YouTube is not exactly a downloading service, and the clock had to be ticking on the viability of MiTube.

Kerplonk! It's gone. Getting the app yanked is not a big surprise. How it ever got in the app store is a bigger question. Just a couple of weeks ago HandyLight was pulled. It looked like a flashlight app, but in fact it had hidden features that allowed you to tether an iPad or a laptop to your iPhone and share your 3G signal. Apple approved it, then pulled it when the word got out of what the app really did.

Apple has every right to control the app store, but these approvals followed by a quick yank are sort of embarrassing.

By the way, if your iPhone is jailbroken there is always MXTube,

[Via iLounge]



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caleb roberts

Is it just me - or is youtube just not attracting me as much as it use to? I have not perused the site (or on my iPhone or iPad or computer) for a very long time...

August 06 2010 at 12:16 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
dennis

Glad they were yanked before I wasted time and effort on them. I suppose the Video app was pulled due to complaints from Youtube. The tethering app was rightly pulled because the developer lied and violated his agreement with Apple.

It seems pretty obvious that the developer (Nick Lee) of the tethering app is an idiot. He'll have to move his skills over to the unregulated, unprofitable android apps. Hopefully, Apple will still pay him for all the downloads so he can last long enough to rebuild his credibility with someone.

August 06 2010 at 2:38 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
icruise

Glad I got this while I could. In case anyone didn't know, you can actually offload the videos from the iPhone to your computer using the "File Sharing" section of the "Apps" tab under your phone in iTunes. Makes this very useful indeed.

August 06 2010 at 12:52 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
NOAH BERKOWITZ

it would be nice to post about this ahead of time so that we could actually have it! why did they have to get rid of it. :(

August 05 2010 at 10:48 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
McTacos

Duuuuuuuuude will someone stop snitching!?!??!!

Who's the jerk that is calling Apple and telling them there is something awesome that needs to be taken away asap?

I'll tell you who. It's the same guy who would tell the principal before ditch day, the same person who heard that José a. and José b. were going to get in a knife fight that afternoon, and leaked it to the cops.

August 05 2010 at 10:35 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Justin

That jerk would be all of us. You don't thin Apple doesn't have employees that read the same sites the rest of us donlooking for this sort of news? The snitching is when a tech blog praises these apps. Or when an app like HandyLight has a ridiculous number of downloads. You don't think they keep tabs on that stuff?

August 06 2010 at 9:23 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Cam

I saw this announced on another site and I knew it was too good to be true and it'd be pulled right away. Glad I got it before it did.

August 05 2010 at 9:28 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Daniel

Downloads Lite (http://bit.ly/d7hwto) just got an update yesterday which enables you to download videos from YouTube's mobile site. All you gotta do is find the video you want, tap on the video square (like in search results) and hold till the options menu comes up and press "Download YouTube video". Works swimmingly.

August 05 2010 at 9:21 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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david watson

Exacly. I was just gonna post that. Been using it for months.

August 05 2010 at 10:05 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
ChuckInSF

Can you write article telling us about these nifty apps IN ADVANCE of them being pulled??

August 05 2010 at 8:45 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
iron9iant

jailbreak > installous > MiTube

or

http://bit.ly/bvJyxc download the file and appsync it.

Still free. No need to spend $4 on MXTube

August 05 2010 at 8:44 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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GlennAC

Thanks for the download link, but unfortunately, unless we have your iTunes password, we can't authorize the app and run it.

I'm getting an error message in iTunes - "The application "MiTube" was not installed...because an unknown error occurred."

August 05 2010 at 9:01 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Justin

@GlennAC

Which is why he said to use appsync to install it, not iTunes.

http://hackulo.us/forums/index.php?/topic/72258-appsync-for-ios-40/

August 06 2010 at 9:19 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
William Hook

Was just discussing this with a friend last night - I said "have a look at this app and download it quickly, I'm betting Apple will remove it within 48 hours".

Surprise! :P

August 05 2010 at 8:27 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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