Apple and CompUSA Working on 'Software on Demand'

Posted by pudge on Thursday March 13, 2003 @01:53AM from the going-into-a-store-how-quaint dept.

pimpbott writes "Apple is working with SoftwareToGo to install kiosks in CompUSA stores to deliver software on demand. Imagine walking into your local CompUSA and ordering some obscure title that nobody would ordinarily stock, paying for it, and walking out with a custom-burned CD-ROM. This not only gets more titles published and available to the public at large by reducing the need for expensive shelf space and other publishing costs, but it keeps embarassingly large, mostly empty software boxes from ending up in the landfill."

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C'mon... by Erik+K.+Veland · 2003-03-13 01:59 · Score: 0, Troll

We've had this for years! Hotline, FTP, KDX, Aquisition have given me Software2Go for as long as I can remember.

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