Re: Petition for SomethinElse games to be back
Hanif, an ipa file is just as easily obtainable as an older m4p file from iTunes. The file itself is right there. Using it is the hard part. Think of it as being given the locking mechanism but no one else but the owner knew the code, and never revealed it. That's what fair play drm is in plain English. Every time you launch a fair play protected file, whether that be a song pre2009, movie, audiobook or paid app, there will be a key check. There's an encrypted repository of keys that are used to decrypt the file. If a key is not found, you will usually be asked to enter your apple id. If you don't provide a valid apple id that paid for the content, you're left no better off than you were before, even though you have the file. Unless of course, you strip the drm, but most drm strippers, rightfully so, check for a downloaded license key before giving you the decrypted version to make sure you're actually decrypting your own content. Or at least, they used to . Lol. The point is, apps are encrypted. And I very much doubt that Apple would take drastic steps to redevelop these games as Merek2000 is possibly suggesting. From a marketing standpoint, they got more important things to do. Bottom line, the games may very well be lost to time. Even if you, a purchaser of the apps, stripped the drm, you'd have to hold onto your older 32bit devices and only folks who had such devices could play the games. Because, starting on ios11, 32bit support is no more, unfortunately.
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