[lmm]

But you can run Steam on Linux. You don't have to worry about whether they're going to discontinue the cheap Steam Box you were relying on. And they have built up credibility from decades of not pulling the rug, in a way that Apple hasn't and probably can't.

[redwall_hp]

Apple has been running the iTunes Store without "pulling the rug" for about as many years as Steam has existed.

Hell, they ditched DRM on music in that time period too and will sell you lossless ALAC as well as MP4 audio. (They obviously weren't able to talk Hollywood into that.) Steam is DRM that ensures the capability to pull rugs.

[lmm]

> Apple has been running the iTunes Store without "pulling the rug" for about as many years as Steam has existed.

Maybe. It's not been a very prominent line of business for them, and even then I can recall a couple of significant dramas over that time - didn't they merge two different kinds of libraries and cause confusion? The unremovable U2 album is also a cause for concern, not because an extra album is bad but because it implies they see the contents of your library as up to them rather than you. Most of all, they went out of their way to break music being sold by Real for iPods, which hardly suggests a company committed to interoperability and open platforms.

> Hell, they ditched DRM on music in that time period too and will sell you lossless ALAC as well as MP4 audio. (They obviously weren't able to talk Hollywood into that.) Steam is DRM that ensures the capability to pull rugs.

Not "obvious" at all, and precisely the point at issue. I'm happy to buy music from Apple, but movies require another level of trust that they haven't reached yet. I will grudgingly, cautiously buy games from Steam when they're not available on itch/GoG, and maybe that's unfair, but Apple have never sent me the message that they want or care about me (a non-Apple hardware user) as a customer of their movies.

[GeekyBear]

> The unremovable U2 album is also a cause for concern

Open the settings and uncheck "automatically download purchased music that isn't on the device".

Fixed.

> movies require another level of trust

When Apple paid the studios extra to alliw them to upgrade previously purchased 480p movies to HD, I'd say they earned it.

[freejazz]

> But you can run Steam on Linux

And how many people run linux that this is even relevant?

[esseph]

> Despite astronomical price hike, the Steam Deck has sold out again in North America

> May 28, 2026

https://mastersingaming.com/2026/05/28/despite-astronomical-...

Not to mention reading this on Linux with Steam in the background.

[righthand]

The number of people doing it is irrelevant because the larger point was being able to download the movie on any platform. Steam on Linux is just a good example of supporting almost all platforms to distribute media.