[forrestthewoods]

There’s no universe in which people like this don’t complain.

Release Pocket Caste 2 and they’ll complain. Sub and they’ll complain. Don’t update and they’ll complain.

HN is highly sympathetic to the plight of the open source dev who rage quits because people demand too much for free. This is basically the same thing.

I know this will get downvotes. But I’m not wrong.

[dns_snek]

There are very obvious, important differences between the options they had available. Both in terms of general user expectations for end of life apps, as well as concrete promises made to their customers to make a sale.

Do you apply the same sort of lazy false equivalence to all moral and ethical questions? People will always complain, therefore you can do anything!

I don't think I've ever complained about an app going out of business and discontinuing updates, but I don't have any patience when they take active steps to renege on their promises by adding ads or taking features away - that's just fraud.

[forrestthewoods]

I call bullshit on the claims of “promise”.

When you buy a $3 app on iOS this is not a contractual or moral obligation or promise to provide decades of updates for free.

Just because someone says a promise was broken doesn’t make it true.

[dns_snek]

> When you buy a $3 app on iOS this is not a contractual or moral obligation or promise to provide decades of updates for free.

Who asked for free updates? I repeat:

> I don't think I've ever complained about an app going out of business and discontinuing updates

[forrestthewoods]

Rather than the opening paragraph crying about “broken promises” (which weren’t actually ever promised) perhaps the article should complain that Apple won’t let you download old versions of apps you paid for.

Of course Apple forces devs to update their apps every couple of years to support new minimum SDK requirements.

[kbelder]

>I know this will get downvotes. But I’m not wrong.

Well, that statement was half wrong.

[forrestthewoods]

Rude: yes

Value Added: no

[kbelder]

It was rude, and I probably shouldn't have posted it on HN. It was intended to point out something though, and that was to call out the parent post.

In my opinion, at least, stating something and then adding "I am right!" is rude and disrespectful. It's implying that anybody that disagrees with you is not just wrong, but wrong to the degree that you cannot even allow for the possibility that you are mistaken, or that conversation is pointless. That's why I was rude back.