Apple In-Store Software Burning

jarrettwold2002 writes "This seems to have escaped notice, however it's fairly significant. Apple has partnered up with CompUSA to offer in store electronic software distribution. According to the site it takes about four minutes from purchase to burn. It's bundled inside a dvd case, with color packaging."

Comments

Now that everyone has pointed out that it's a dupe

[Randolpho]

... we can get on with the discussion. I missed the first article, so I get to comment on this one, and my comment is this:

Potentially a great way for small-time developers to get their software to the masses. It reduces or even totally eliminates the need for a publisher. There are no upfront costs, you just pay a portion of your sale to Apple / CompUSA.

Daddy like. :)

Re:Apple partners with an abusive company?

[dbrutus]

No, they just want distribution which is hard enough to get. At least with CompUSA it's *possible* to get Mac software. Try doing that at Best Buy or Circuit City and they just look at you funny. Anything that they carry that's useful to you is strictly an accident (ie they stock a Windows software title and the mac version comes in the same box).

With this particular method, you end up with a lot of titles available in very little square footage (ie low cost of distribution) and if they require you to swipe a credit card before they burn the title (which would be a smart move) you quite possibly would be out of there *faster* than if you just yanked a box off the shelf and waited in line.

Re:Inferior!!!

[MoneyT]

The whole idea though being that you can actualy play with the computers at the apple store and actualy try the products and how they handle doing the things you normaly do. You know, treating your customer like a customer and not a criminal.