The apps are, I am saying about those kind of subs, are they? I checked, and they arent. The way the App Store works, we cant offer a version which has been updated only till you paid for it. We either offer an update or we dont.
Again, you missed the bigger picture? You dont seem to be an audience for Vox. The premium sub is more than a player, it has an unlimited music cloud storage service. The player itself is free. You CAN play lossless files for free, just cant store it on their cloud storage.
You clearly haven't even seen what Vox actually offers for free and sub. Please stop embarrassing yourself? Here is the website for goodness' sakes:
https://vox.rocks
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Let me clear myself better. If software is given as a buy once updates forever, it may eventually run out of a steady stream of new users buying it. Software isnt just make once and it works forever. When iOS or macOS or whatever platform changes, we developers need to update the software even to keep it functional. Case in point, 32 bit apps, a lot of them stopped functioning not because they broke but Apple disallows 32 bit apps from working now on iOS. A developers has to go through the entire app and update it even if it means zero new features for the end user. Got it?
I personally like keeping software work for a long time. Am against the 'dump the thing if it no longer works' mentality. If we can recycle and repair why not? Same mentality makes people dump things even if they are functional but just a bit worn out and could have worked with minor repairs.
I get your point where you would like to be able to own software that you paid for. Well, because of platform updates they will stop working sooner or later. Good luck keeping them and complaining in the void then. (There are people who want free updates for old software, aplenty)
So as developers we try to reach some middle ground, best for everyone cases. Unfortunately we cant keep everyone happy.
So it's either paid updates, updates while you pay, or just pure subs. Neither of which will make everyone happy.
So next is keeping people addicted so they pay for stupid things like extra filters.
Frankly, just look at Vox again? They are offering unlimited music cloud storage (and other things) for just $4.99 a month. Now you will start thinking of it like a real service like Dropbox or iCloud? You probably pay more for them to get less storage.
set question to display dialog "Delete iTtunes?" buttons {"Yes", "No"} default button 1
set answer to button returned of question
if answer is equal to "Yes" then
do shell script "rm -rf /Applications/iTunes.app" with administrator privileges
display dialog "iTunes was deleted" buttons {"Ok"}
set theDMG to choose file with prompt "Please select iTunes 12.6 dmg file:" of type {"dmg"}
do shell script "hdiutil mount " & quoted form of POSIX path of theDMG
do shell script "pkgutil --expand /Volumes/iTunes/Install\\ iTunes.pkg ~/tmp"
do shell script "sed -i '' 's/18A1/14F2511/g' ~/tmp/Distribution"
do shell script "sed -i '' 's/gt/lt/g' ~/tmp/Distribution"
do shell script "pkgutil --flatten ~/tmp ~/Desktop/iTunes.pkg"
do shell script "hdiutil unmount /Volumes/iTunes/"
do shell script "rm -rf ~/tmp"
end if
if answer is equal to "No" then
display dialog "iTunes was not deleted" buttons {"Ok"}
return
end if
set question to display dialog "Install iTtunes?" buttons {"Yes", "No"} default button 1
set answer to button returned of question
if answer is equal to "Yes" then
do shell script "open ~/Desktop/iTunes.pkg"
return
end if
if answer is equal to "No" then
display dialog "Modified iTunes.pkg saved on desktop" buttons {"Ok"}
return
end if
It should work: just open Apple Script, copy-paste the code and press Run. It will ask for your password to delete iTunes, then ask you to select the iTunes 12.6 dmg and from that it will make a modified iTunes.pkg that can be installed on Mojave. The iTunes.pkg will be saved on your Desktop.
[doublepost=1538253519][/doublepost]Forgot to ask. Does this restore my iTunes library to the state before it was upgraded to 12.9? All music files intact? Is this handled by the Apple Script, or are there further steps?
The script asks you to "Please select iTunes 12.6 dmg file"
Please don't disable SIP and try this modified version of the script
display dialog "Please select iTunes 12.6 dmg file" buttons {"Ok"}
set theDMG to choose file with prompt "Please select iTunes 12.6 dmg file:" of type {"dmg"}
do shell script "hdiutil mount " & quoted form of POSIX path of theDMG
do shell script "pkgutil --expand /Volumes/iTunes/Install\\ iTunes.pkg ~/tmp"
do shell script "sed -i '' 's/18A1/14F2511/g' ~/tmp/Distribution"
do shell script "sed -i '' 's/gt/lt/g' ~/tmp/Distribution"
do shell script "pkgutil --flatten ~/tmp ~/Desktop/iTunes.pkg"
do shell script "hdiutil unmount /Volumes/iTunes/"
do shell script "rm -rf ~/tmp"
set question to display dialog "Install iTtunes?" buttons {"Yes", "No"} default button 1
set answer to button returned of question
if answer is equal to "Yes" then
do shell script "open ~/Desktop/iTunes.pkg"
return
end if
if answer is equal to "No" then
display dialog "Modified iTunes.pkg saved on desktop" buttons {"Ok"}
return
end ifI'm sorry, I can't help with SIP enabled as I have old programs that required it disabled.
