Is it time for a regulation requiring app stores (and while we're at it, all digital media "stores" selling DRM-ed media or claiming to only license, not sell, it in the fine print) to change the "buy" button to say "rent for a flat fee" instead?
Anyone who has purchased the item would be able to download it again for free - it's just new purchases that would be discontinued.
They make money on ads.
They don't want those 2016 era games occupying screen time because they don't serve up ads!
Have you tried playing a new game recently?! 1 minute of ads per minute of gameplay. I'm not exaggerating.
And the games are awful...you can't lose on half of them. They don't want you to get frustrated by losing and stop ad-watching.
RIP Android gaming.
> It also claims that Apple and Google have a “special responsibility to protect consumers’ interests” due to their “effective monopoly” on app stores. Apple and Google’s lack of oversight “constitute abuses of their respective dominant positions,” it says.
https://mobilegamer.biz/apple-google-king-supercell-and-more...