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Comment We have the technology... (Score 4, Interesting) 478

by appleprophet on Thursday March 05, 2009 @06:32AM (#27075371) Attached to: How Much Longer Will Physical Game Distribution Survive?

You can see this already with PC gaming. Digital distributors like Steam have pretty much demolished the brick and mortar stores. My local GameStop barely has a PC game section anymore and it's not because the PC market is shrinking. In fact, it's growing.

Brick and mortar stores are dying and they know it -- for PC games anyway. It's like they are not even trying anymore. I am an independent video game developer, and I tried my best to let GameStop et al sell my company's game, but they do not even return calls. We have not even gotten an email back yet.

Meanwhile, our upcoming title is going to be sold in virtually every single online store -- some of them responded within a day of being contacted. Here's our list so far.

Brick and mortar stores are still clinging on for consoles releases. Retail stores pretty much are the only place to go when you want to buy the latest AAA titles (except Amazon, which is like digital distribution with very high latency).

Comment Re:How does firefox maintain competitive advantage (Score 1) 465

by appleprophet on Tuesday February 24, 2009 @04:05PM (#26974269) Attached to: Safari 4 Released, Claimed "30 Times Faster Than IE7"

These are very serious allegations. Please link to your bugzilla report.

Submission + - Why you should support Mac OS X and Linux (wolfire.com)

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appleprophet

on Sunday December 28, 2008 @04:12AM

appleprophet writes: "The independent video game Lugaru actually sold more copies on Mac OS X than it did on Windows. Here's an analysis on why supporting non-Windows platforms can actually affect sales in ways that you might not expect based on raw marketshare. Basically, don't underestimate the effect of being a big fish in a small pond, getting new opportunities from the Mac and Linux communities, and unexpected evangelists."

Bookmark Why you should support Mac OS X and Linux (wolfire.com)

by appleprophet on Sunday December 28, 2008 @04:04AM

Apple Gives $100 Store Credit To iPhone Customers 452

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday September 06, 2007 @06:12PM from the quit-your-crying dept.

MooRogue writes "In an open letter to all iPhone customers, Steve Jobs responds to hundreds of emails from upset iPhone customers. Apple will be giving early adopters who are not receiving rebates or any other consideration $100 store credit at the Apple store. Details will be posted on the Apple website next week"

Introducing the Slashdot Firehose 320

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday August 02, 2007 @02:33PM from the who-wants-to-drink-from-the-firehose dept.

Logged in users have noticed for some time the request to drink from the Slashdot Firehose. Well now we're ready to start having everybody test it out. It's partially a collaborative news system, partially a redesigned & dynamic next-generation Slashdot index. It's got a lot of really cool features, and a lot of equally annoying new problems for us to find and fix for the next few weeks. I've attached a rough draft of the FAQ to the end of this article. A quick read of it will probably answer most questions from how it works, what all the color codes mean, to what we intend to do with it.

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