Things that make me feel like we’re missing the point of modern technology
[…] Steam has the right idea here: just let me pay you with a credit card and download the game onto my computer’s (or Xbox’s) hard drive, and tie it to my account so I can download and play the games I’ve purchased on any compatible hardware without having to keep and swap stupid plastic discs and sit through slow disc load times and copy-protection checks.
I was thinking about this today when I redownloaded some iPhone apps that I had purchased. I had deleted every trace of them (iTunes keeps them in a folder called “Mobile Applications”) and was still able to download them based on my purchase history. I think this is where Apple will go with iTunes in the future, as we progressively “live in the cloud.”
