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Submission + - Pricing Strategies -- iPad Vs. iPhone Games (gamasutra.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Though Apple's iPad has launched to incredible sales, some developers with iPhone experience under their belts — and who are now building for the iPad as well — are struggling with how to strategize and price around titles for the new touch-screen platform. Some have chosen to create "universal builds" — gamers can buy one version and receive the other version as a freebie. Others are developing separate builds for each platform and are pricing them separately. It's all a matter of business strategy, they say.

Comment Re:Too much lockdown! (Score 2, Insightful) 237

Yes, MS is a software company... and yet, they don't lock down any of the software options within their operating systems.

But they do. The Xbox 360 is locked down and software can only be installed if it passes certification from Xbox LIVE.

or [Apple is] a PR company, more concerned with convincing you to buy something, than with the actual nature product.

Apple only spends about a third of the marketing budget that MS expends.

Comment Re:Shifting Focus... (Score 1) 908

All that these so-called electric and fuel-cell vehicles do is shift the point source of the pollution and fuel consumption away from the vehicle and onto the electrical grid

That could be a good intermediate goal. Filtering the exhaust of a big carbon-using power plant can be much more effective, than filtering the exhaust of a lot of cars.

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