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Originally Posted by Capt'n Corrupt View Post
Then again, how many apps that I purchased in the 1980s do I still use? Still it may be nice to revisit some of them with an Android emulator in the late 2030s -- which may not be possible with this model of distribution.
Actually, there are a good number of people who still use software written in the 1980's. This is especially common in business users. There are still people who will swear by old versions of Lotus 123, older MS Word (because newer versions are just unnecessarily laden with features and slow), etc.

Although, then there's also alllllllll the emulators and system emulators that people like to go back to because there was just something innocent, pure, artistic and culturally beautiful about the software written back in the 1980's.

It would be a shame if software of the 2010's were locked down in a way that ruined your ability to bring it at LEAST into an emulator. Anybody remember all that money wasted on that Microsoft "Play For Sure" music and video garbage locked down by server run DRM (i.e. the Walmart online music store, Yahoo music, etc.)? Play For Sure servers went away when Microsoft came out with the Zune music store. They didn't even have the decency to negotiate a transfer of licenses with the music labels--so hopefully you didn't buy a ton of stuff... that was truly money that went up into a puff of smoke. The same thing could (and likely will, someday) happen with Apple's DRM'ed stuff, unless they renegotiate the licenses and carry them over into any new DRM or un-DRM. Of course, that STILL doesn't help you if you want to buy someone else's device besides Apple's, even today.
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