Sure but that $50 app works in perpetuity. Back when I did uni IT one of my professors was still using their ~20 year old version of WordPerfect. I still have a

Sure but that $50 app works in perpetuity. Back when I did uni IT one of my professors was still using their ~20 year old version of WordPerfect. I still have a copy of Office 2003 that works. They can pry my Adobe CS6 license from my cold dead hands. So I think you're right it's App Stores but for the reason that they force indefinite maintenance on developers.