I think the biggest problem I have with the App Store model is that it seems to go hand in hand with planned obsolescence. Older versions of programs are no lon

I think the biggest problem I have with the App Store model is that it seems to go hand in hand with planned obsolescence. Older versions of programs are no longer available for download (maybe not true for all app stores?) and older hardware gets quickly forgotten. I still use an iPhone4 and my biggest mistake was upgrading to iOS7 (I suppose I could jail break it and downgrade it but doesn't that make it more of a pain for development?). It would be nice if there was an option to downgrade via Apple, but all old versions seem to get thrown out. That would not have been be a problem with the previous models of updating because I would have a physical copy of the software. I understand that they just want to support the latest hardware because it makes things a lot easier for them and keeps costs down a lot, but it just seems so wasteful to purposefully break hardware with an upgrade. If there was a choice between paid upgrades (with access to previous versions) and free forced upgrades, I would pick the former, but it seems like things are moving toward the latter. Edit: "That would be a problem..." corrected to "That would not have been a problem..."