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Qik Video Sharing App Now Available in App Store

Friday August 14, 2009 7:23 am PDT by Marianne Schultz


Qik, a popular video sharing application available for a number of smartphone platforms, has officially come to the iPhone. However, its most notable feature - the ability to stream live video - is missing in the version for the iPhone. Instead, users can only upload saved videos to Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Qik's own site.

Qik first came to the iPhone unofficially last year as an app available to jailbroken iPhone users through Cydia and was regularly used by Kevin Rose, who demonstrated the app on his blog in October 2008. Rose stated that it would be coming to the App Store, though the date of its availability was not known.

Videos recorded on the iPhone 3GS and uploaded via Qik can be shared with geotagging information so viewers can know the exact location of where the video was recorded. Text fields can save a title and/or brief description for a video before it is uploaded. Available for free, Qik can be found in the App Store here (link opens iTunes). It is compatible exclusively with the iPhone 3GS, the only iPhone model capable of recording video out of the box.
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iphones4evry1
Posted: 36 months ago
Omg !!!!

I've been waiting for this!

"users can only upload [3GS] videos to Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Qik's own site"

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TitoC
Posted: 36 months ago

Omg !!!!

I've been waiting for this!


Yeah, but without the streaming aspect, it seems like only half an App to me. Most of the appeal of Qik (at least to me) when i had it on my jailbroken phone was the ability to stream. Without it, it's a "meh" moment to me.
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hefeglass
Posted: 36 months ago
once again, we get a worthless, crippled app....
apple and att really suck
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iphones4evry1
Posted: 36 months ago

Yeah, but without the streaming aspect, it seems like only half an App to me. Most of the appeal of Qik (at least to me) when i had it on my jailbroken phone was the ability to stream. Without it, it's a "meh" moment to me.


Oh, wait! You're right! No live streaming :eek:
So, this is no better than the native 3GS App that uploads to Youtube. I can post my Youtube links on any website. (disappointed)
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Rychiar
Posted: 36 months ago
Pointless. Just pair your youtube account with Facebook and Twitter and your vids will automatically show up there anyway:rolleyes:
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macduke
Posted: 36 months ago
So this uploads videos from the iPhone to YouTube?

This is duplicated functionality! I might get really confused by this. :confused:

Apple needs to remove this ASAP or the world will fall to pieces.
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kenkamm
Posted: 36 months ago

once again, we get a worthless, crippled app....
apple and att really suck

Agreed. Why does arguably the best platform for apps like this get crippled version? SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO STOOOOOOOPID
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karenmb
Posted: 36 months ago
I think I will get this just so I can pick and choose which videos I want sent to Facebook. I don't want every video I send to YouTube to automatically upload to Facebook. And that's how it works when you link FB to YT...all or nothing.

Streaming would be nice though.
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2000m
Posted: 36 months ago

once again, we get a worthless, crippled app....
apple and att really suck



i agree completely
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tigres
Posted: 36 months ago
Good thing while I am out and about shooting with my awesome video camera on my 3gs I can wait until I am back home a week later to upload them. No wifi here.

But hay; I still get to pay AT&T that Data... whoopee.

Nice wasted POS crippled xxxxxxxxxx...

Whatever 
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