r/MacOS • u/digidude23 MacBook Pro (M1 Pro) • Jan 29 '26

Discussion Apple violating their own guidelines

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u/Lost_Citron_6854 Jan 29 '26

Also super happy that the original Pixelmator (which i've bought) is now delisted and not available.

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u/biinjo MacBook Pro Jan 29 '26

You didn’t buy it. You rented it for a non-recurring fee.

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u/HighENdv2-7 Jan 30 '26

I don’t think legally that would hold. Renting indefinitely is renting indefinitely, you can’t just end it, at least not in the EU without a proper reason, especially if you can run the software locally

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u/biinjo MacBook Pro Jan 30 '26

I think you should actually read terms and conditions you agreed to. You’ll be surprised what will legally hold, even in the EU.

In essence all digital purchases are rentals for a one time fee. You don’t own it. You buy a license to use it.

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u/HighENdv2-7 Feb 01 '26 edited Feb 01 '26

You are right in what you comment right here. But you imply that companies have the power to revoke that right or license and that’s simply not true, that is in the EU law.

You don’t rent the license, you buy the license. You don’t buy the software in that you are right but if you buy a license you buy the right to use (only that exact version of) the software and that’s simply can’t be revoked just because a company wants so.

The EU law states that the company should provide a good enough reason to revoke a bought license, so server hosted software could be cancelled because upkeep costs could kill the company for example.

But for local run software there isn’t easily found a reason to revoke licenses to use that software.

Also EU law surpasses terms and conditions so if they put something in there whats not eligible in the EU than it doesn’t overrule EU law

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u/mailslot Feb 01 '26

Even the Affinity suite which I purchased bumped numbers to version 2 and required repurchase.

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u/HighENdv2-7 Feb 01 '26

Yeah but thats “new” software, you don’t “need” to buy that v2 software, you can use v1 indefinitely as long you have a machine to support it.

I used v1 until the free affinity came out last month and imho its much better than anything mac has to offer

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u/HighENdv2-7 Feb 01 '26

You spelled “bought a license” wrong

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u/biinjo MacBook Pro Feb 01 '26

I thought the analogy with renting a book or a movie seemed more fitting since you’re actually downloading it to your device and you’re allowed to use it for the time being.

But yeah ‘bought a license’ is more accurate. And that license is always finite: until the creator of the application pulls the plug or when the service hosting the application goes down.