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Comment: Re:Droping X86 may be suide for apple (Score 2) 368

by alen (#38953609) Attached to: Apple Intern Spent 12 Weeks Porting Mac OS X To ARM

i doubt they will stop selling Intel based MBP's. this will probably be for a lower end laptop for the $500 laptop market.

as it is now a $500 laptop about $200 goes to Intel/MS for the hardware and OS. add in the screen and other hardware. the margins on them are razor thin. it take 8 cheap HP laptops to equal the profit of one MBP.

If apple can make a $500 laptop that does the basic tasks for most people it's all over for Intel/MS in the lower end laptop market. Internet, email, basic games, basic apps. there will still be $2000 MBP's for photochop and xcode and other big tasks but for most people a $500 apple laptop will be a killer deal

and there will tens of thousands of apps at launch with the mac app store and iOS app store

Comment: Re:I Must Be Missing Something Here (Score 4, Insightful) 332

by alen (#38916715) Attached to: Thanks to DRM, Some Ubisoft Games Won't Work Next Week

this involves spending money to support games that have already been sold

the smart way is to turn off the servers
load into truck
move to new DC
unload
rack them
turn on and change configs

sure people can't play the game but the revenue is ours already. not like they can return it

Comment: Re:And that is what really stiffles innovation (Score 1) 379

by alen (#38902999) Attached to: Leaked Zynga Memo Justifies Copycat Strategy

no, historically innovators like Henry Ford are narrow thinkers and stubborn. even steve jobs made a lot of wrong decisions and had to be convinced by others to change his mind

innovators come up with a cool new idea but never expand it for the mass market. the copycats like steve jobs, zynga and Alfred Sloan are the ones that make it popular

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