Comment on Why is Google allowed to remove purchases from our Play Store accounts without telling us?
csm10495@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Apple probably does the same thing. You pay 20 bucks for an app that gets taken down from the store: does the next phone get it still?
Technically won’t be able to download from the app store but using applications like imazing to download it and as long as you previously owned it, Apple will restore your purchases.
I’ve been using a manga reader that got taken off the store around 2017, still use it and transfer it to each new device (works for both phone and iPad). The ad-free in-app purchase restores just fine too.
Yeah - I have lots of apps that I paid for that have been delisted or aren’t compatible with my current model iPhone. I had a couple that were installed but got “offloaded” so I still have the icon but the app is gone forever :)
sebinspace@lemmy.world 8 months ago
IIRC there were iPhones being sold at exorbitant prices because they were in Airplane Mode and Apple hadn’t removed Flappy Bird from them after the developer removed it from the App Store.
EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 8 months ago
imagine selling a kidney to buy a phone and not even having a say what apps can go on it
sebinspace@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah, I’d hate to drop $1800 on a Samsung.