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Originally Posted by pidgeon92
I have to ask... Why should a major update to an app (I don't use this app, so won't speak to it specifically) be given to prior purchasers for free? I pay to upgrade the apps on my computer all the time. Why should mobile apps be different? If the prior purchased version would no longer be functional, I would understand being upset....
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Most people don't pay to update their programs on the computer. They pay to buy new programs. In the computer world, the difference between an update to Office 2010 (which is free if you own Office 2010), and a new version of the same program (like Office 2013, which you have to purchase even if you own Office 2010) is obvious and transparent.
This distinction is too often not clear with mobile apps, where upgrades may make the program worse in an attempt to monetize you in some way. It would be like downloading an update to Office 2010 and discovering that you no longer have the ability to bold or italicize words, but you can regain that ability by buying Office 2013.
Or - to use an example that happened to me a couple of years ago - I updated weather.com's app (I think it was called "weather") and found out that the function of the upgrade was not to improve the app, but to add ads to it.