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Yes Streets of Rage !!

Also to those complaining about $1.99.... really dude... you would pay $5 for a whatever latte from Starbucks that you drink in 5 minutes... but complain about 2 bucks for a classic game you can play over and over.... PlZZZ

You obviously haven’t tried their new latte then, lmao!
 
You just described why I don't look at iOS as a serious platform for anything I want to last.

Everything I do on iOS is "look, do and send and go".

My productivity ends up stored on my Mac, my messages and mails and not only on my iPhone or iPad, my games - stopped buying them for iOS, for mobiles games the few I want I keep Android and apks around.

And hmm, well I do expect from an OS that I deem worthy of becoming a main OS to be installable and downgradable at my discretion and to yes - support frameworks and code compatibility for a long long time.

It can be done, Microsoft and others have been showing that for a long time now and that's why I don't feel too guilty about asking for that.

Until then I still USE iOS, but very differently and that is okay I guess, but not compatible with Apple's goal of making iPad a PC replacement for example. (personal opinion, ymmv, don't expect anyone to follow me, just felt like answering your comment)

Glassed Silver:mac

PS: no need to hold back at all, you can support old AND new code. It works, Apple just has a long history of forgetting quickly in favor of change, albeit in code compatibility I don't think this is a good approach - again - for my taste. Never felt a need to change my thinking here, because everyone comes to their own conclusions.
I don't understand the issue vs consoles. If you own a ps2 disc it will only play forever on a ps2. Same w an iOS game, You can keep playing it forever as long as you keep the hardware and firmware the same. What's the difference?
 
I don't understand the issue vs consoles. If you own a ps2 disc it will only play forever on a ps2. Same w an iOS game, You can keep playing it forever as long as you keep the hardware and firmware the same. What's the difference?
Authentication.

If I get a new iPhone and let us just assume that I cannot connect it to Apple's authentication server for whatever reason the iPhone will not let me play the games I add through iTunes.

tl;dr: DRM

Glassed Silver:mac
 
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