{"id":3318,"date":"2009-04-27T19:25:34","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T10:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=3318"},"modified":"2009-04-27T19:25:34","modified_gmt":"2009-04-27T10:25:34","slug":"nico-nico-douga-introduces-its-iphoneipod-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/nico-nico-douga-introduces-its-iphoneipod-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Nico Nico Douga Introduces Its iPhone\/iPod App"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3321\" title=\"Niwango's Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/niwango_logo.gif\" alt=\"Niwango's Logo\" width=\"218\" height=\"44\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3322\" title=\"NicoNico Douga's Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/niconico_logo.gif\" alt=\"NicoNico Douga's Logo\" width=\"144\" height=\"48\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/niwango.jp\/\">Niwango[J]<\/a>, the owner of Japan&#8217;s most popular video sharing site &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicovideo.jp\/\">Nico Nico Douga[J]<\/a>&#8220;, released its <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewSoftware?id=307764057&amp;mt=8\">iPhone\/iPod app<\/a>on Monday. The app is for free and available only at Japanese AppStore.<br \/>\nWith 3G or WiFi connectivity, the app allows you to search\/play videos and leave your comment on Nico Nico Douga, however it does not cover the livecast category called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/live.nicovideo.jp\">Nico Nico Live[J]<\/a>&#8220;.<br \/>\nAccording to the app&#8217;s developer lead Mr. <em>Masahito Mizoguchi<\/em>, the iPhone\/iPod app is developed based on Nico Nico&#8217;s mobile edition which has been introduced for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nttdocomo.co.jp\/english\/\">NTT DoCoMo<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.au.kddi.com\/english\/\">au<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/mb.softbank.jp\/mb\/en\/\">Softbank<\/a>\u00a0handsets since 2007. Unlike the mobile edition which were developed on Java based technologies, the iPhone\/iPod app needs to be coded in Object-C language.\u00a0 Such a gap of the development environments caused the developer&#8217;s suffering in adjusting image quality on the app. Also, it seemed so hard for them to deploy the service&#8217;s symbolic feature that overlapped subtitles run on screen in synchronization with video.<br \/>\nNiwango started developing the iPhone\/iPod app last November, and it already completed in early March. But the company was forced to take longer time than expected, to make it pass Apple&#8217;s approval to put on the AppStore. Niwango doesn&#8217;t disclose the reason why it has been delayed, but reportedly it seems to have violated AppStore&#8217;s guidelines especially in terms of how Niwango manages the video contents.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3323\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"Nico Nico iPhone\/iPod App 1\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/niconicoiphoneapp1.jpg\" alt=\"Nico Nico iPhone\/iPod App 1\" width=\"238\" height=\"356\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3324\" title=\"Nico Nico iPhone\/iPod App 2\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/niconicoiphoneapp2.jpg\" alt=\"Nico Nico iPhone\/iPod App 2\" width=\"388\" height=\"255\" \/><br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/japan.cnet.com\/mobile\/story\/0,3800078151,20392376,00.htm\">CNET Japan[J]<\/a><br \/>\n<script src=\"\/media\/scripts\/common\/swfobject.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nnew function() {\nvar movie = new SWFObject(\"\/media\/2006\/video\/vplayer2007jp.swf?noCache=\" + (new Date()).getTime(), \"vplayer\", \"320\", \"320\", \"9\", \"#000000\", true);\nmovie.addParam(\"allowScriptAccess\", \"always\");\nmovie.addParam(\"quality\", \"high\");\nmovie.addParam(\"swfLiveConnect\", \"true\");\n\/\/ video content\nmovie.addVariable(\"directLink\", \"video\/2009\/090427_niconico\"); \/\/ \u30d3\u30c7\u30aa\u306eakamai\u30d1\u30b9\nmovie.addVariable(\"directStillFrame\", \"\/story_media\/20392375\/090427_niconico.jpg\"); \/\/ null (string)\nmovie.write(\"movieplayer1\");\n}\n\/\/ --><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Niwango[J], the owner of Japan&#8217;s most popular video sharing site &#8220;Nico Nico Douga[J]&#8220;, released its iPhone\/iPod appon Monday. The app is for free and available only at Japanese AppStore. With 3G or WiFi connectivity, the app allows you to search\/play videos and leave your comment on Nico Nico Douga, however it does not cover the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/nico-nico-douga-introduces-its-iphoneipod-app\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nico Nico Douga Introduces Its iPhone\/iPod App<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,8,9,17,29,38],"tags":[1732,1742,2588,2629],"class_list":["post-3318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular-phone","category-community","category-company","category-japan","category-service","category-video","tag-iphone","tag-ipod","tag-nico-nico-douga","tag-niwango","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}