Apple has damaged the perceived value of software

Re:Apple has damaged the perceived value of software by nervositee on Thursday May 04, 2017 @10:42AM (#14265165)

But as a consumer, what the heck am I buying? I'm not buying a physical product, I'm buying a sequence of 0 and 1. It's a license to use said app. It's not the 90's anymore where you own a CD with your program and that is your product. I cannot re-sell the "used app" when I don't use it anymore.

So if I buy the 'license' to use your app, I'm gonna be real effin pissed if I can't use it on all my devices.

Actually tying your purchase to your Apple ID is much better for the dev, because only YOU can use it. A CD with software is much easier to share with your friends.

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Re:Apple has damaged the perceived value of software by xixi77 on Thursday May 04, 2017 @09:09PM (#14270387)

Exactly: people are complaining about technology because it gives consumer an option to have a copy on multiple devices, but at the same time they are just taking the things that the same technology gives them, such as preventing people from reselling their copies, as some kind of a God-given right.

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