Comments on: App reviews are unpredictable…

By: Donna Brown

Donna Brown — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 09:19:46 +0000

Really sorry to hear that but this is still a 5* app with fantastic features. It’s been a real timesaver for me and I was able to recommend it just this morning to someone needing more than Safari can offer.

Silly decision on their part and you’ve obviously done everything humanly possible. Thanks for trying!

By: Alexander

Alexander — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 11:45:54 +0000

@mobamo
Yes, you probably need to update. The clip converter module was updated in the last version (and is updated again in the next release

By: mobamo

mobamo — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 09:18:32 +0000

Thank you , Alexander – this sounds great but….
being on a YoutubeSite : when I clic the Clipconverter-Module – nothing happens.
Do I need a special Version to access this function?
I’m still runnnig the 6.8 Version?

By: Alexander

Alexander — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 19:28:02 +0000

@mobamo
You only need to open the module when you are on a youtube video page. The module will call the clip converter page with the relevant information.

But because of a bug of the clip converter page you need to use a Desktop Browser ID setting, because otherwise the clipconverter page will swot to the mobile version of its site and loses the information of the video.

I’d suggest to define a site.specific browser ID setting (scroll down the list of browser IDs to find the option to define site-specific IDs). When defining a site-specific Browser ID, use “*clipconverter.cc/*” as URL and “Safari (Mac)” as Browser ID.

The next release of iCab Mobile will automatically create this site-specific browser ID for clip converter, so you don’t need to create this manually.

By: mobamo

mobamo — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 18:21:04 +0000

hello Alexander!

Could you give a hint how to use the Clip Converter Module for Downloading youtube Files?

Thanks and greetings from the french mountains

By: Jesse Pinkman

Jesse Pinkman — Tue, 28 May 2013 12:32:06 +0000

ridiculous, there are tons of other apps that can download youtube. just search ‘download youtube’ in apps store

By: joe

joe — Sat, 25 May 2013 06:41:13 +0000

This behaviour of Apple is very disturbing. This is just another aspect in my years with the fruit company that makes me focus more and more on possibilities one has on the android platform. Even if this means I would abandon/burn apps worth of hundreds of Euros….

By: nqeuew

nqeuew — Wed, 15 May 2013 09:32:34 +0000

Apple guys are not consistent with their guidelines. Also, the guielines themselves are not very clear and specific. That is not fair. But I think Apple is being that way intentionally. Being too strict makes the market shrink, and being too loose makes the market uncontrollable. It means that, for a same issue, Apple sometimes says YES and sometimes says NO. What’s the difference? I believe, to apps which can be competitive with Apple’s own ones, Appe is more strict. I really don’t like that attitude. Duh.

By: CJ

CJ — Mon, 13 May 2013 12:39:15 +0000

Thanks Alexander

By: Alexander

Alexander — Sun, 12 May 2013 10:03:23 +0000

@CJ
This time, Apple did not complain about something. So nothing had to be removed.

I don’t think Apple will allow iCab to download from Youtube again. But you can workaround this issue by using the “clip converter” module that ships with iCab Mobile or by directly going to the clip converter web site.

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Sun, 12 May 2013 06:20:20 +0000

Such a shame. Just upgraded, wish I’d seen this blog post first. That’s is so sneaky on Apples part. Oh well, I think people are slowly losing patience with there monopoly and need to control every aspect of the user experience everything else. Hence the rise in sales of Samsung smartphones etc. It’s funny I can’t imagine Apple requesting a youtube block on behalf of Google though, they’d probably be delighted to have someone irritate Google. I reckon it’s because your browser is so good and treats the user like a proper adult and not a little sheep in a pen. They want to keep people on Safari etc. it’s almost like when Windows was done for unfair competition by bundling Internet explorer with the OS. It’s their store ok but when the store is actually almost the entire market they shouldn’t be allowed sabotage competitors. You see the same attitude in some of there ridiculous patent claims.

The clipconverter trick works by the way. Just paste the youtube link but you have to hit the share button in icab to download.

By: CJ

CJ — Sun, 12 May 2013 06:01:46 +0000

Hi, I just saw that there is a new version for iCab. While I’m excited about it I’m also a little bit afraid to upgrade. Is there any features that were/had to be removed this time? Is it possible that the YouTube download feature is back?

By: Ethan

Ethan — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 03:42:05 +0000

I agree that apple simply was seeing you as a threat- and felt they ‘needed’ to ‘put you in your place’ (below them). I used to use Atomic Web Browser, but I woke one day to find it no longer updating- which it needed- and when I looked, I found that it had been blocked from the US AppStore, so I can appreciate the stress of having to play along with Apple, I would rather not have a YouTube download feature than to not have the amazing upload and download functionality that you provide to your app. Thanks to your app, my laptop keyboard has become a foreign experience, as I would often find myself reverting to Firefox- but rarely do so anymore. I love all of the nooks and crannies in the app, and think it’s probably the best use of my money I have spent on an app. I look forward to keeping your app in my dock.

By: monkey

monkey — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 19:03:56 +0000

I think the decision to make you take out this feature is ridiculous on their part.

There a loads of dedicated apps that only download videos to the iPad, and even just YouTube videos.

Think your product is great – sorry Apple is turning into a greedy non-supportive corporation.

By: Alexander

Alexander — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 17:14:58 +0000

@Craig
Unfortunately there’s no way to bypass the AppStore.

Currently there’s one way I know of to download from youtube nevertheless, and this is to use the ClipConverter site http://clipconverter.cc/ which is a site that can convert videos from web sites in other formats. And because the converted video is then coming from ClipConverter and no longer from youtube, the download should work in iCab Mobile. This isn’t as comfortable as before, but it might be an option.