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Polylactic_acid on Aug 21, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: The software industry is going through the “dispos...

Its not just drm in the way. Even if I had a copy of the app I wouldn't be able to use it because no device I have could run it. Its the fact that apple doesn't give 2 shits about backwards compatibility. Which is not entirely a bad thing but it means games will all eventually be unplayable.

shmerl on Aug 21, 2020 [–]

> Its not just drm in the way. Even if I had a copy of the app I wouldn't be able to use it because no device I have could run it.

Depends on the game. For example, a lot of old Windows games run on Linux in Wine pretty well, despite not working even on Windows anymore.

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