I think they must be trying out that idea on their Nokia division if the latest update to my phone is anything to go by :-(

Billing address or delivery address? What about presents to third parties, or getting it delivered to work or to a client?

Seems to have worked fine for over 70 years for my local supermarket, which gets Prince Charles to milk his cows for them :-)

Walk through the subway :-)

Having hitchhiked in my youth, I can say that the marijuana drivers were very polite but slower than an old man in a hat. They didn't look like they had lightning reflexes.

(Agreeing with you here)

Just write it in C++ using Airplay SDK then it compiles on the Windows PC directly to an IPA file for iOS (3 screen sizes), a SIS file for Nokia/Symbian, an Android file (for its one million different screen resolutions and aspect ratios) or normal Windows Mobile. No Macintosh required, and you can test it on the PC for gameplay bugs. Of course if you want to publish for a non-standard (i.e. non iPhone) platform, you have to pay more money for the software license.

WP7 not supported, but more mainstream os's (maemo, brew, bada, webOS, windows phone 6) are since they don't disallow compiled computer languages "native code".

People pirate $0.99 iPhone games. I guess they were not cheap enough.

Of course it is a lost sale if the customer wanted to give money to the developer and the shop persuades them not to. I'm a hoarder so I don't get rid of games. If I go into a games shop more than a week after a game is released I am lucky if I am permitted by the retailer to give any money to the developers of the game by buying a new one (since they want to get rid of their used games first). Heck they take *preorders for used games* these days. No wonder EA has responded to this declaration of war by retailers by putting content for single player games online. So the consumer ends up losing. I don't see second hand books/music/dvds being pushed over new ones at the major retailers - why is that? If there was a delay between new and used sales at the major retailers like there used to be, publishers and developers might feel less squeezed.

Um, there are much more than 50 towns, cities and counties in the USA :-) how would amazon know that some village in the middle of nowhere has increased their local sales tax this year?

Doesn't amazon UK (and other internet companies) sell from Jersey (tax haven island) for that very reason?

Yeah good points. But I still prefer "Tora tora tora" to ben affleck :-)

Being human is rather good - you can believe the characters behaving as they do. But they are as much at risk of jumping the shark for the third series as anyone else for popular characters/actors I guess.

With all the historical errors in Braveheart, I wouldn't have been surprised if the Americans had won, just like they did in Pearl Harbour!

And as I submitted, there is an advert for iPhone on the TV in the background :-) such timing!

Also, don't forget slashdot is a US based board so until a US marketing company got British people to design and Taiwanese people to build a mobile phone a couple of years back it was all the time "why on earth would people want to use a mobile phone? They will never take off! They are only used by yuppies and fancy pants foreigners. My 8KHz copper wire phone from Ma Bell has all the connectivity I would ever need". At least that trend seems to have stopped recently!