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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 7724812" data-attributes="member: 2525">Smug doesn't sell well. Apps have staying power as well. You seem to have confused the concept of an app with the concept of a website. A website, and a database controlled in the cloud, can be shut down at whim. An app however is as "hard a copy" as a PDF most of the time, and there is no reason to believe it will mysteriously be remotely removed from your devise or locked along with all of it's content some day without your permission. You keep asserting that apps are somehow routinely removed remotely or locked or otherwise disabled, but reality doesn't support this view. It's supported with websites, but not with apps you buy. As I just mentioned, my daughter routinely uses apps I paid for years ago on a device that has no connectivity. It's much more akin to software you purchase on a disc than it is to a website.Now if you know of some study or review or well thought of analysis from a reputable source that shows that apps over the long term are very ephemeral and are routinely disabled over time, I'd like to see it. Beyond that, you simply continuing to assert that PDFs are forever but apps are not isn't compelling. Apps are almost as old as PDFs, and apps have a long history of remaining and functioning even after the company that made them has long gone out of business most of the time - particularly the content type apps like this one.  But I am open to persuasion - let's see your source on how content-viewing apps are nefariously or otherwise disabled by their publishers on a routine basis over time.My guess is this reaction you represent is a combination of "change is unknown and therefore bad" and "I can do unintended and disallowed things with PDFs that I might not be able to do with an app". But I could be wrong, because as I said that's purely a guess on my part and I don't want to attribute false motives. But, using a content reading app instead of a PDF is surely a change from the "industry standard" which I suspect in itself is considered a bad purely because it is unfamiliar, and I also suspect the familiarity of PDFs has led to a number of PDF-manipulating applications which allow one to do things with the content in a PDF which is otherwise not allowed by the license connected to the sale of that PDF, and those things might not be as possible with an app. So, that's the reason for my suspicions.</blockquote>

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