Paintings have to be restored, books have to be reprinted.
If your art is so cherished to you and other people then surely that should give you even more motivation to spend time ensuring that it is preserved into the future, no?
This is actually because the author doesn't want to do small labor, not because people are being silenced or murdered
If majority of games won't be around in 10-20 years, then it's a pretty good analogy of the parent post.
The phrase "small labor" has a legal meaning. This is not a colloquial attempt to describe the workload as small.
However, also, as an author of unity iOS software who's gone through this, I do think the amount of labor being described here is pretty over the top.
Even in an extreme case I would only expect dep upgrades to take a couple days.
I've read the many comments, thanks. It's just that I don't really agree with them.
As both a developer who's been through this, and as a user, like many other people in this comment thread, I agree with this policy. I believe that abandonware doesn't really belong in store. It makes it much harder for me to use my phone, that every time I want to do task X, I can't find an app for ten minutes because I'm digging through all the shovelware.
I also don't see any moral imperative to keep games available, frankly. To me it seems like insisting that every board game ever printed should still be on sale somewhere.
I think that if people feel the need to compare this to murder and political oppression, they're kind of ceding that if they describe it correctly, nobody's going to be angry.
In general, I treat invalid comparisons to war crimes as a warning sign, internally.
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> If majority of games won't be around in 10-20 years, then it's a pretty good analogy of the parent post.
This has always been the case with computer games.
Try to dig up some 2600 or Colecovision games. I'll wait.
The author will eventually die, and then their work will either be modified without their oversight or deleted from the archives.
As the quote says, the problem extends beyond just video games.
What things against content guidelines should still be in store? That story does not make sense
Oh no, a store doesn't carry a video game for all eternity, past an author's death? Oh no. Since Apple is the country's archivist, the phone store should probably carry every single app ever written for all time. Screw the user experience, Apple's obligation is to the author of Lizard Pong
There is no problem