Yesterday I visited Qik.com’s headquarters and they loaded a very early version of their iPhone streaming video app onto my iPhone. Here’s the first video I did with it.
Note that this is NOT a jailbroken iPhone, but they needed to do some magic to build me an app that’ll only run on my iPhone. I don’t know when it’ll be submitted to Apple as an official application. But for now I’m having fun trying it out.
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October 25th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
Show off. :-) Pays to be the Scobleizer.
I’m sooo tempted to jailbreak mine, but sooo fearful of doing so as well. Tell the folks at Qik to hustle up and get and app ready for the masses to use. After all, we can’t all be you Robert.
October 25th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
wow! the video quality ain’t that bad. looking forward to the app.
~C
October 25th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
[...] get video recording functionality working on non-hacked iPhones. Both Digg founder Kevin Rose and blogger Robert Scoble have now seen this in action, but the app is still not available in the App Store, and it’s not clear when it will be [...]
October 25th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Scoble!!!
You had me so excited for a second. I read half of the headline (aka the two words “Qik” and “iPhone”) and then fired up the App store on my desktop and tried to search for it. After reading the rest of your article, at least I know that they have a working version of the app. Good post.
I’m looking forward to more Qik posts from your iPhone and having Qik on my own iPhone. Guess I’ll just have to wait.
Peace
Brian
October 25th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
[...] get video recording functionality working on non-hacked iPhones. Both Digg founder Kevin Rose and blogger Robert Scoble have now seen this in action, but the app is still not available in the App Store, and it’s not clear when it will be (though [...]
October 25th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
Dude - you suck! I was totally psyched for about 2 seconds until I read the rest of your post. Oh well, let’s hope this expedites the rest of us getting Qik on our iPhones sooner rather than later.
Best,
Aaron | @astrout
October 25th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
Looks pretty good. Can’t wait until it comes out. Of course, it is gonna destroy the already week battery performance…
October 26th, 2008 at 5:52 am
[...] iPhone doesn’t actually allow you to record videos but qik now found a way supporting the iphone. [...]
October 26th, 2008 at 5:55 am
cool Robert!
October 26th, 2008 at 8:14 am
Hi Robert, maybe you could urge them to improve the Flash video player as well. Love Qik but the player is very bad (e.g. thumbnails do not work the first time, no full screen mode, …). Left a comment here http://qik.com/blog/184/new-features-in-the-qik-player but no reaction. Regards, tamberg
October 26th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
So whats the ETA?>
October 26th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
I’m not sure why this matters… just jailbreak your iPhone, seriously. It’s hardly a risk.
October 26th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
[...] it appears they have it working on non-jailbroken iPhones, both Digg founder Kevin Rose and blogger Robert Scoble have confirmed that they have seen it in action. There is no word on when the native app will be in [...]
October 26th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
Wow ….
Its very tempting to jail break the iphone,
October 27th, 2008 at 12:02 am
I am looking forward to this!
October 27th, 2008 at 2:50 am
[...] devices. There’s an iPhone version in the works as well. I haven’t seen it myself, but Robert Scoble got the Qik folks to install it on his non-jailbroken device and it should be submitted to the iTunes App Store soon. Of course, the round after that is sure to [...]
October 27th, 2008 at 7:54 am
[...] company is actively working on an iPhone application and has an early version under development, as Robert Scoble learned while touring Qik’s headquarters last week. (See his Qik-created video [...]
October 27th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
I think this is the one application that could make me more excited than Google Earth on my iPhone… it took me about 15 seconds to go download that from Appstore when I heard about it!
November 6th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
[...] company is actively working on an iPhone application and has an early version under development, as Robert Scoble learned while touring Qik’s headquarters last week. (See his Qik-created video [...]
November 7th, 2008 at 10:21 am
I’m hearing comments elsewhere that the issue is that Apple won’t officially release the API for video on the iphone, and thus this Qik app is ‘in jail’ unless/until that changes. Anyone know the truth about that?