I don't think that deleting a bunch of cruft from the app store will "create a cultural black hole for generations to come." Imagine people had said that same

I don't think that deleting a bunch of cruft from the app store will "create a cultural black hole for generations to come." Imagine people had said that same with old DOS games? The article makes a very valid point regarding digital preservation. The same argument is often made regarding the dangers of DRM or other proprietary data and storage formats.