But so do Android Market purchases, and any other managed DRM system. You put up with it just like everyone else. Where I disagree is my level of concern. I have plenty of games on Steam and plenty of purchases on the iOS and Mac app stores. It doesn't bother me because it's status quo. I got over it quite some time ago.
I didn't comment on Android, though in the case of Android you can at least bypass the Android market and install arbitrary apps without revocation. (I don't have an Android device, though; still looking for a comparable replacement for my n900, since it won't last forever.) I use quite a few digital services, just not any that control my access to bits I've already purchased. And I use a pile of mobile apps, all FOSS.
I wouldn't even consider the entirety of mobile apps ported to the N900 a pile, but whatever. GP commented on Android and you followed up pretty directly, so I just assumed.
True, I should have said the vast majority of popular digital services, not ones targeted towards the kind of people that would use an N900 to make a point.
At the time I wrote my comment, the original post hadn't actually mentioned Android; that appeared in a later edit.
> True, I should have said the vast majority of popular digital services, not ones targeted towards the kind of people that would use an N900 to make a point.
I don't think services offering the not-quite-purchase of data represent "the vast majority of popular digital services". Also, services like Netflix don't have this problem, since they very clearly position themselves as analogous to a rental, not a purchase. iTunes, the Android Market, Xbox Live, and Steam all very much position themselves as purchasing mechanisms, which makes the ability to retroactively revoke purchases unacceptable.
(And I don't use an N900 to make a point; I use it because it does the things I want it to do better than anything else I've tried, and that includes Android devices. I only mentioned it because you seemed to assume that since I didn't use iTunes or Android I must not use mobile apps at all.)
I'm looking at the truest scotsman in the world right now.
> I don't think services offering the not-quite-purchase of data represent "the vast majority of popular digital services".
I would, assuming you aren't counting rental services. Netflix isn't really the same thing. I'm referring to purchasing digital goods tied to an account.
> And I don't use an N900 to make a point; I use it because it does the things I want it to do better than anything else I've tried
Right...
> and that includes Android devices. I only mentioned it because you seemed to assume that since I didn't use iTunes or Android I must not use mobile apps at all.
Nope, I assumed you use an N900 or something similar the moment you said you didn't use an Android device. You seem like the type. I stand by my original comment, there are very few mobile apps published for MeeGo. I didn't say you utilized no mobile apps, I said a small handful. Still true. Hell, for MeeGo a handful might even be overly generous.
Gotta love the "run through and downvote everything I said" response because I was being honest. I guess a certain HN member is channeling reddit a little today.
Certainly wasn't me; users don't even have the ability to downvote replies to their own comments. I do find it surprising that someone would systematically downvote everything you said (and AFAICT systematically upvote everything I said in the process). I certainly don't think your comments need to disappear; mostly I'd say "I resemble that remark". :) I've upvoted them to compensate.
I realized after I posted it that the "certain person" remark made it sound like I was accusing you. I wasn't, I literally meant a certain person, as in some random other user.
