“I was pretty interested as a consumer when Apple introduced the Mac App Store. Reading through Apple’s developer guidelines, one of the first things I noticed was that apps can’t be designed with any sort of license key,” Michael Gartenberg writes for Macworld. “None. Nada. Zero. And when you read the Mac App Store terms of use, you discover that consumers are allowed to install the software they purchase on as many computers as they own and use. If it’s tied to your iTunes account, it’s legit.”
Gartenberg writes, “Apple’s approach is simple. It’s an honor thing. The company believes that, given the choice, people will do the right thing. It also understands that anti-piracy techniques don’t stop pirates, but they do get in the way of honest users… It’s an honor thing. And that’s a good thing.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Not treating customers as criminals. Imagine that.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “krquet” for the heads up.]