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> Hardly. Valve has been doing this with Steam for years. Microsoft does it with Xbox Live. Which is disturbing but when it regards software your livelihood de
by spindritf 15y ago
> Hardly. Valve has been doing this with Steam for years. Microsoft does it with Xbox Live.
Which is disturbing but when it regards software your livelihood depends upon, not "just" games, the story gets that additional umpf.
> Once again, not unique to Apple.
Sure, but the article is about Apple.
- shinratdr 15y ago> Which is disturbing but when it regards software your livelihood depends upon I like the implication that nobodies livelihood depends on a game. Of course nothing could be further from the truth. I'm sorry but to find it disturbing it kind of has to be novel, and it's not. IMO it's pretty sad that what is supposedly a community of developers is "shocked" by something that has been going on for years now on plenty of platforms, including iOS and Android. You might still have a problem with it but it shouldn't cause an incredulous reaction like that. > Sure, but the article is about Apple. I'm not discussing the article, I'm discussing your incredulous reaction like this is something out of some dream. It's not, in fact there is tons of precedent for it.