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Tue, 01 Dec 2009 BBC confirms no iPhone iPlayer app yet

No live streaming, download options for iPhone, iPod touch users

Nick Spence

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The BBC has moved to quash reports that a native iPhone BBC iPlayer application is in the works.

Weekend reports suggested the BBC's popular iPlayer might be coming to the Apple smartphone after a mock-up was used on a BBC iPlayer Data Pack report, showcasing October's facts and figures for the catch-up TV service.

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The Microsoft PowerPoint file showed BBC Radio One broadcasting live, 'Live' and 'Download' options.

However, BBC blogger Nick Reynolds in response to questions about the iPhone images used in the report wrote: "Antshez and AllAboutiPhone - the images are old images and should not be taken to mean that anything is likely to happen soon. Since the images seem to have provoked unnecessary speculation we'll probably update the pack later today and remove them."

You might wonder why the BBC are wasting licence fee money (or in-house staff time) commissioning images if the the corporation doesn't intend to start offering a native iPhone application?

In the financial year 2008/2009, the BBC television licence cost £139.50, £11.63 a month or 39p a day.

Not coming to the iPhone soon.

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Ascylto said on Tue, 01 Dec 2009

Why would they?

Remember how log it took them to port the iPlayer to a Mac?

The BBC is in Microsoft's pocket now. They got top Microsoft men in to their team.

Fred said on Tue, 01 Dec 2009

Actually the Beeb seems to have a pathological ignorance of both Microsoft and Apple, as evidenced by their being no iplayer for Xbox or windows mobile (which I must add is an awful, awful mobile phone system - but unfortunately a prevalent one). Very strange prioritisation choices at the Beeb.

Dragonfly said on Wed, 02 Dec 2009

BBC Probably have Microsoft people working for them because no other company offered a solution.

It would be good if it were a UK company but, here's the news. We don't do anything in this country anymore.

We've either closed down or sold everything off. If we want something doing (building an Olympic stadium, Nuclear power station etc...) we'll get an advanced country like France, Germany, America, Italy, Portugal, India, China or Ethiopia to do it for us. We'll just sit back and 'be crap'... It's what we do best.

All About iPhone said on Wed, 02 Dec 2009

While the Beeb may have officially denied the iPlayer app, a commenter on my blog posting says although it's an old mockup, there is an app on the way as a "later Xmas present". Come on Santa!

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