Re:Apple to Pull 'iDOS 2' DOS Emulator from App Store
by newscracker on Friday July 23, 2021 @07:55AM
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It will stay on the phone, but won’t be available for downloading again since it’s being removed by Apple. Once the phone dies and the user buys a new phone, there won’t be a way to get this app unless the user copied the app package through a third party application on a Mac (Apple removed the ability to sync/backup app packages to a Mac since iTunes 12.7).
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Re:Apple to Pull 'iDOS 2' DOS Emulator from App Store
by perryizgr8 on Friday July 23, 2021 @09:31AM
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It so happened once that iPhone removed an app that I didn't use for some time to save space on the phone, leaving behind just an icon shortcut. When I tried to use it, it tried to download it back, but couldn't, because the app had been removed from the store.
So by default you can't count on your apps staying on the phone.
Re:Apple to Pull 'iDOS 2' DOS Emulator from App Store
by vmception on Friday July 23, 2021 @08:14AM
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> Once the phone dies and the user buys a new phone, there won’t be a way to get this app unless the user copied the app package through a third party application on a Mac (Apple removed the ability to sync/backup app packages to a Mac since iTunes 12.7).
yeah. thats where the experience diverges from other platforms.
the current device, with the current OS, won't have any problems. asking for more is mostly a different standard than other platforms, sad to hear they killed making your own app package copies.