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Apparently this is news to people. Well, here is the deal. When you buy an application from the Apple App Store, you are allowed to install that application on multiple authorized iPhone and iPods. This is controlled by Apple’s FairPlay. Before the App Store the same was true for DRM’ed music.
My wife and I both have iPhone. Whey I paid $99 for TomTom Navigator, I installed it on both our phones. Actually, Apple did that automatically for me since we both use the same account (my iTunes account) for all our purchases. Try that with a Garmin GPS device. Go buy 1 and then see how you can turn it into two devices. You can’t. So a $99 purchase is effectively spread across all the iPhone/iPod devices you own.
I’m not sure how many devices this is supported for, but basically, this becomes a cost effective way to buy and share programs with your family in a legit way. For once DRM is not total FAIL.
So there you go. More info here.