That seems wrong. I wonder if you could petition apple for a refund in the case where developers purposefully sunset an app purposefully but for no technical reason (which I understand isn't really what this thread about, nor may not match your situation entirely).
Re:iOS 11 reviewed
by JohnTHaller on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @02:33PM
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I don't think the dev went in and broke the old version. I think it didn't run on the new OS and they built a new version that did. This happens in the desktop space as well where there are apps that worked on Windows 7 but don't on Windows 10. You can buy a newer version that does work on Windows 10. This is generally for much more involved apps that are quite expensive to build and to buy.
Similar with Tweetbot, which seems to release a new version as a separate app every couple years or so? The version I reluctantly bought (knowing they do this) is no longer updated but had long-standing bugs even when it was being actively developed. The experience makes me reluctant to buy any apps at all on App Store, tbh.
You pay $5 for Tweetbot, and they work delivering updates for years before asking for another (usually b/c of many new features or hard work updating the UI for modern iOS)
It's one of the most polished apps around. You don't owe the Developer's time indefinitely from one $5 purchase, and you're free to move to an alternative. I'm happy to continue to support the apps I love -- they generally aren't asking a whole lot.
Additionally, in the case of Twitter clients, they also can't add a lot of new customers b/c Twitter has capped their allowed clients. If they didn't charge customers again, they wouldn't be able to sustain the work with new ones.
Re:iOS 11 reviewed
by mullingitover on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @04:19PM
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Same thing with WeightBot, which I have been using for years and now doesn't work with iOS 11, and I'm losing years of data. I would pay for an update to the app, but it's completely abandoned.
I also loved weightbot, but gave up on it long ago. You might be able to pull the data off with one of the filesystem, readers, if that's worth anything to you at all.
Re:iOS 11 reviewed
by irrational on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @12:39PM
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Same with the American History Dictionary of the English Language. The app costs about $30 and they release a new version every year or two and kill the old version. After the second time this happened I stopped playing that game, which is a shame since this is my favorite dictionary.
Re:iOS 11 reviewed
by module0000 on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @02:31PM
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This is par for the course with Omni software - a lesson I've learned as well.
They rightly don't want your "business".
What do you mean by that? Of course a developer doesn't have to support version X forever, but the damn thing no longer runs at all? This was paid software. I guess OP was renting it for some undisclosed period of time, and you think that's acceptable?
Hello, Omnigraffle. I bought this on iPad, used this something like, three times before having a need to use it over a year later and "Sorry! There is a new version to buy and your version is no longer supported, or runs!". It wasn't cheap, as apps go.
Never, ever buying anything from Omni, ever again.
Edit: To add details, I bought this for £35 on iOS 7. When iOS 8 came around, it was discontinued, left to crash on open, and you had the "opportunity" to buy version 2 all over again.