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Re: Coming changes to Apple's App Store

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Post by khedoros » Fri, Jun 10, 2016, 7:31 PM UTC

rarepostinlurkr wrote: post #287

khedoros wrote: post #233

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I'm not talking about years later. I'm talking about an immediately obvious shortcoming that manifests on the platform supported by the product at the time of purchase. If I buy it and they're out of business 5 minutes later, then I guess I should've been paying more attention to who I give my money to.

I don't think Adobe supports CS6 anymore, but it sure looks like the desktop platform supports it even when the developer doesn't.

I think you've got it backwards. Adobe supported running CS6 on various platforms. The platforms weren't (and aren't) the ones doing the support.

At this point, no one supports CS6. The fact that you can use it on some particular desktop platform is partially a consequence of their past support, and partially because the platform hasn't "shifted out from under" the application yet.

Re: Coming changes to Apple's App Store

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Post by djrogers » Sat, Jun 11, 2016, 4:08 AM UTC

cloudjacker wrote: post #257

djrogers wrote: post #141

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it's like 3 clicks to find your entire list of subscriptions and once you're there it's 2 clicks to turn off automatic renewal. Plus TFA said they're making it even easier, so what exactly is your complaint?

on your phone? how? last I tried it involved going to iTunes on a desktop

In settings go to App Store, tap your account, then tap subscriptions.

Re: Coming changes to Apple's App Store

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Post by alttab » Sat, Jun 11, 2016, 8:20 PM UTC

theli0nheart wrote: post #256

alttab wrote: post #164

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I still buy Blu Ray box sets. I own the shit out of those, and can watch Indiana Jones when the power is out as long as my generator is running.

I would not consider a Blu Ray box set "digital" in any way. That's a physical item that you physically place into a physical player.

Fair enough. I suppose as long as there are mainstream high quality non-digital alternatives then we should take those. I agree nothing I have digital rights to is "owned" by me.

It's not like asking "ah don't like coal or nuclear power? Go live in a cave."

Re: Coming changes to Apple's App Store

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Post by rarepostinlurkr » Mon, Jun 13, 2016, 10:50 PM UTC

khedoros wrote: post #291

rarepostinlurkr wrote: post #287

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I don't think Adobe supports CS6 anymore, but it sure looks like the desktop platform supports it even when the developer doesn't.

I think you've got it backwards. Adobe supported running CS6 on various platforms. The platforms weren't (and aren't) the ones doing the support. At this point, no one supports CS6. The fact that you can use it on some particular desktop platform is partially a consequence of their past support, and partially because the platform hasn't "shifted out from under" the application yet.

> At this point, no one supports CS6. The fact that you can use it on some particular desktop platform is partially a consequence of their past support, and partially because the platform hasn't "shifted out from under" the application yet.

I don't think that reflects reality. I would suggest taking a look at the internals of AppKit and other critical paths, you'll discover they are very aware of the applications linking into them.

Most recently we had this https://storify.com/gruber/blizzard-exemption-to-ios-and-mac... , which highlights the Platform keeping Developer software running. That looks like the platform doing support to me.