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No, it's absurd because you're stating a very hard-line vow over a single incident. If you had said "I'm not going to buy from MAS when reasonable alternatives
by eridius 11y ago
No, it's absurd because you're stating a very hard-line vow over a single incident. If you had said "I'm not going to buy from MAS when reasonable alternatives exist", that would be a reasonable stance to take. But instead you're saying "If an application is available only on the MAS, I will refuse to purchase it, no matter what the circumstances are". Even for applications that don't provide mission-critical functionality (e.g. that you can tolerate breaking for one day).
- mikeash 11y agoNo mission-critical apps currently exist as App Store exclusives. An app can't become mission-critical unless I let it, so the possibility that a new one might show up as an exclusive doesn't make any sense. So really, you're just upset about my wording. That is, to borrow a term, absurd.
- eridius 11y agoThere's a very significant difference in meaning between "I vow to never purchase anything (free or paid) from the MAS ever again", and "I will prefer to get things direct-sale when I can". And you must know that, or you wouldn't have chosen the more dramatic "vow" statement. If you really meant what you said when you used the word "vow", then stand by your statement. If you didn't, then admit that you actually meant something else. But dismissing my argument as a mere complaint over "wording" is disingenuous.
- mikeash 11y agoWhere am I saying "when I can"? I'm not going to get apps from the Mac App Store again, period. It will not be very difficult to do this, because I don't need to. But please, continue telling me how my statement about my own actions is "absurd" based on your opinion of the situation.