Gregory's Serverapparently you can just airdrop yourself Apple Pro Apps from display units in Apple Stores and use them without paying hundreds of dollars xd
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 @basti564@wetdry.world airdrop is the most shitposty feature ever from the lens of an android user @basti564 so there's basically cracked versions of Apple apps officially installed on display devices.  @adzetko @basti564 logic pro has no license checks at all. There's no "cracked version" of it because there's nothing to crack, you just run the app and it works. Neither the app nor the OS even check whether you downloaded it from the app store or whatever. I literally downloaded "Logic Pro X.app" from a shady website, the file is unmodified and signed by Apple, and it launches and runs exactly as if I had bought it off the app store     @basti564 @citrusui But if I can't update the .app, I'll just have to use it on the Mac I put it on for the rest of its life. So Logic Pro, I'd have to eventually take it offline when it no longer gets updates and use the thing like a Commodore Amiga like back in the Fatboy Slim days. (Wait a sec. What's the problem with that?) 😂      @basti564 @stroughtonsmith Reminds me of many years ago when there was an iPhone jailbreak that only required you to simply visit a specific website from the phone itself and it would instantaneously j/b it; I ... errr had a friend who … jailbroke all the iPhones in the local Apple store, installed Cydia on them (the jailbroken appstore), and added Cydia's control center (this was pre-control center in iOS) to them all. :)  @basti564 All Apple software is simply a means to sell Macs, so they’re supremely uninterested in anti-piracy. Otherwise these pro apps would cost a thousand for every new version, not a one time payment of $199. it used to be like that, but not anymore. the new ipad final cut and logic pro apps are on subscription. if it works, they might move the desktop versions of them to subscription as well, similar to apple arcade, which has both mac and ios versions on a subscription basis @constantine urg. That sucks. I’ve been using the same purchase of FCP, etc on my Mac for at least 15 years.  @basti564 @lisamelton I recall a story from the drive-based firewire ipod days of youts plugging into Apple store computers, dragging over the whole iWork suite, and then leaving. Everything old is new again!  @basti564 there never was an issue. Apple doesn’t make its money with the pro apps.  @basti564 i basically delete the files the logic pro demo creates on a regular basis and that works well :D I don't think there are any restrictions with the demo version either so, meow  @basti564 last I checked you could do something similar with Huawei phones (Bluetooth not airdrop though, and this was before Google got angry with them)  @basti564 I remember when droplifting meant something else, but this has a better claim to the name |
@basti564 THATS CRAZYYYYYYY