1) Voddler has about 2500 movie titles, most of which aren't even new releases - lots of crappy direct to video. Vudu/Walmart and Netflix have 5-10x that, and Vudu has new releases. 2) They are not even remotely like Spotify, they charge per title VOD for their movies, somewhere around US $3-4 per 24 hour rental. Same as everyone else. 3) They aren't watchable on any TV or BD players like other services, which are available on almost every consumer device and game console these days 4) As far as I can tell, they don'y even have HD. Netflix does, and Vudu has 1080p.
These days the real net profit for a game console to a company is based on the sales of hardware, software, and online services.
The Wii may have made the most (or only) profit on the hardware, but at about $6 per unit all of their profits from the Wii console so far don't equal a year of Microsoft's profits from XBox Live.
And as TFA says:
"While most PS3s sold in are active, Wii's active installed base is far lower than cumulative sales. Nintendo's first party software largely targets Wii's hardcore sector, while third party software performance on Wii remains soft and the mainstream sector has largely abandoned Wii."
So Nintendo is basically not making any more significant profit on the Wii, while Sony and Microsoft are starting to cash in big time.
The Wii was like a sprinter in a marathon. Led for the first mile, but isn't even going to finish the race...
I wish even 35% of commenters would RTFA first, since - not surprisingly - it answers this question.
And yes, after having RTFA it sounded like a skewed survey... but it still makes a valid point. If people have a 2-3 year old iPhone that they like but want to upgrade to something with more features and performance, it's a foregone conclusion they will get the iPhone 5 when it comes out.
I think you need to look up the definition of "massacre". It's a very accurate description of what happened, just like calling other methods of terrorism "bombing" or "hijacking".
Google succeeded because it was at the right time at the right place. Nothing else.
Except that there were a dozen search engines at the SAME "right" time and place, and none of them had the same success as Google. They won out in search because their search result quality and simplicity at the time blew away everyone else's, and they have continued to be the best in their class.
And they are making massive profits now not because they have "good search", but because they put large *effort* into making their advertising network and tools the best in class, as well.
Luck is usually what other people call success when someone succeeds where they haven't (aka "sour grapes"). Doesn't matter if there was a huge amount of planning and effort put in. Anyone can scale a global network globally to of millions of servers, translate into almost every modern language, have the best email client, mapping software, and other services, etc, if they get lucky..
It was also in the FIRST SENTENCE of the article the submitter referenced. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that the submitters don't read the articles before submitting any more than the editors do before posting.
So if my relative made the hospital $25K/month for liver cancer treatment, and they diagnosed him a month before he died, they made $25K. If somehow diagnosed 10 months before death, they could have made $25K/month for ten months, earning a quarter mil of revenue for the hospital, at a cost of losing nine months of "normal life" for the patient. Hmm more money for the medical industrial complex, lowered quality of life for the patient, according to the hospital management, whats not to love?
And if he were diagnosed 2 years before (potential) death, he could have received treatment and potentially lived a relatively normal life for another 10-20 years. Cancer is very often not "terminal" if treated early.
It really depends on how and where they conflict. For example, if both insist on using the same directory name in the same menu/subdirectory, it might not be easily resolvable. There could be cases that would require one of the projects to change names of file, directories, menus, whatever. "Fixing" it without either side changing anything in their own projects could require a lot lower level fundamental changes to other areas.
And since you're right, they are both acting like 3 year olds, I doubt those working on those other areas are interested in changing things just so both of the children get their cookie.
Yeah, just because it looks a little like a CRPG from the 80's, doesn't mean it's as good. If I wanted graphics from 1988 I'd probably just play a good game from 1988...
Wha? These are "CRPG"-style games (ie *console* role playing game). Think Phantasy Star, Final Fantasy, etc. The whole point is they were designed to play on a console without a keyboard, and they have been massively popular for decades...
That's why it's a perfect analogy! Netflix has about as much influence over the DVD business right now. They are equal levels of ridiculous hyperbole...
Netflix often doesn't even have new releases on DVD for the first month they are out, and it takes them years, if ever, to get a movie on their streaming service after it's on DVD. That's not a particularly good way to "replace" something...
It may be less, but I doubt it's "dramatically" less. Tablet makers aren't feverishly pushing them out just to lose all their money as they rot on the shelves.
Apparently the number of Tabs sold to consumers is far less (10-20%?) of those shipped so far (Samsung won't comment on that number, of course, because it's a lot less than they hoped). Compared to the iPad (which is still hard to keep in stock at all) that's pretty dramatic.
I guarantee you that those engineers are not downloading terabytes of highly confidential design documents over their residential cable Internet connection to a giant NAS in their home, even with a VPN. And if they do, it probably doesn't fall under any definition of "legally"...
But even assuming some company is stupid enough to allow that, that's still 0.0000001% of the population, and if it's required by their job they will be able to expense any overages anyway.
Except I can almost never watch what I want on Netflix streaming. And in fact by contract (see "HBO window") almost nothing airing on HBO is available on Netflix...
It's not the physical business that increased costs, it's the streaming business. And they didn't want to tell you why it increased because they didn't want to have to point out the fact that a subscription model is not going to be a sustainable business for premium content.
When the studios are getting $3 per rental for new releases on VOD, hell will freeze over before they license all of their content for unlimited streaming to Netflix...
What would you be downloading legally over your Internet connection that would require 135TB of space to store? Just curious...
Most people I know that use huge amounts of storage like that at home either rip their DVDs/BDs or download movies from bittorrent. I have to admit I don't feel much sympathy towards those hitting a data cap due to the latter...
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What a troll.
2 minutes looking at their site shows:
1) Voddler has about 2500 movie titles, most of which aren't even new releases - lots of crappy direct to video. Vudu/Walmart and Netflix have 5-10x that, and Vudu has new releases.
2) They are not even remotely like Spotify, they charge per title VOD for their movies, somewhere around US $3-4 per 24 hour rental. Same as everyone else.
3) They aren't watchable on any TV or BD players like other services, which are available on almost every consumer device and game console these days
4) As far as I can tell, they don'y even have HD. Netflix does, and Vudu has 1080p.
Doesn't even compare.
These days the real net profit for a game console to a company is based on the sales of hardware, software, and online services.
The Wii may have made the most (or only) profit on the hardware, but at about $6 per unit all of their profits from the Wii console so far don't equal a year of Microsoft's profits from XBox Live.
And as TFA says:
"While most PS3s sold in are active, Wii's active installed base is far lower than cumulative sales. Nintendo's first party software largely targets Wii's hardcore sector, while third party software performance on Wii remains soft and the mainstream sector has largely abandoned Wii."
So Nintendo is basically not making any more significant profit on the Wii, while Sony and Microsoft are starting to cash in big time.
The Wii was like a sprinter in a marathon. Led for the first mile, but isn't even going to finish the race...
I wish even 35% of commenters would RTFA first, since - not surprisingly - it answers this question.
And yes, after having RTFA it sounded like a skewed survey... but it still makes a valid point. If people have a 2-3 year old iPhone that they like but want to upgrade to something with more features and performance, it's a foregone conclusion they will get the iPhone 5 when it comes out.
Those Parker Brothers - how do they sleep at night?
I think you need to look up the definition of "massacre". It's a very accurate description of what happened, just like calling other methods of terrorism "bombing" or "hijacking".
Google succeeded because it was at the right time at the right place. Nothing else.
Except that there were a dozen search engines at the SAME "right" time and place, and none of them had the same success as Google. They won out in search because their search result quality and simplicity at the time blew away everyone else's, and they have continued to be the best in their class.
And they are making massive profits now not because they have "good search", but because they put large *effort* into making their advertising network and tools the best in class, as well.
Luck is usually what other people call success when someone succeeds where they haven't (aka "sour grapes"). Doesn't matter if there was a huge amount of planning and effort put in. Anyone can scale a global network globally to of millions of servers, translate into almost every modern language, have the best email client, mapping software, and other services, etc, if they get lucky..
It was also in the FIRST SENTENCE of the article the submitter referenced. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that the submitters don't read the articles before submitting any more than the editors do before posting.
Congratulations, you have proved there are worse things in the world than creationists - bat shit insane conspiracy theorists...
So if my relative made the hospital $25K/month for liver cancer treatment, and they diagnosed him a month before he died, they made $25K. If somehow diagnosed 10 months before death, they could have made $25K/month for ten months, earning a quarter mil of revenue for the hospital, at a cost of losing nine months of "normal life" for the patient. Hmm more money for the medical industrial complex, lowered quality of life for the patient, according to the hospital management, whats not to love?
And if he were diagnosed 2 years before (potential) death, he could have received treatment and potentially lived a relatively normal life for another 10-20 years. Cancer is very often not "terminal" if treated early.
There is no way he meant that - it would be completely ridiculous with only one eye. That's why Toshiba invented this.
It really depends on how and where they conflict. For example, if both insist on using the same directory name in the same menu/subdirectory, it might not be easily resolvable. There could be cases that would require one of the projects to change names of file, directories, menus, whatever. "Fixing" it without either side changing anything in their own projects could require a lot lower level fundamental changes to other areas.
And since you're right, they are both acting like 3 year olds, I doubt those working on those other areas are interested in changing things just so both of the children get their cookie.
Except you'd still see double images. If you want to fix that, you need 2 of those.
That Kuang Grade Mark Eleven is a hell of a program...
Considering all of those generals in your list are long dead, I think his point does stand...
1988? Hah! I have a working Intellivision from 1980, among others. Ever heard of eBay? :)
Oops, yeah, "JRPG" = "console RPG" :) Oh well, I can't stand console RPGs for the most part, anyway...
Yeah, just because it looks a little like a CRPG from the 80's, doesn't mean it's as good. If I wanted graphics from 1988 I'd probably just play a good game from 1988...
Wha? These are "CRPG"-style games (ie *console* role playing game). Think Phantasy Star, Final Fantasy, etc. The whole point is they were designed to play on a console without a keyboard, and they have been massively popular for decades...
That's why it's a perfect analogy! Netflix has about as much influence over the DVD business right now. They are equal levels of ridiculous hyperbole...
Netflix often doesn't even have new releases on DVD for the first month they are out, and it takes them years, if ever, to get a movie on their streaming service after it's on DVD. That's not a particularly good way to "replace" something...
It may be less, but I doubt it's "dramatically" less. Tablet makers aren't feverishly pushing them out just to lose all their money as they rot on the shelves.
Actually, yes, they are.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/mobile-news/samsung-comes-clean-galaxy-tab-numbers-not-consumer-sales/775
Apparently the number of Tabs sold to consumers is far less (10-20%?) of those shipped so far (Samsung won't comment on that number, of course, because it's a lot less than they hoped). Compared to the iPad (which is still hard to keep in stock at all) that's pretty dramatic.
I guarantee you that those engineers are not downloading terabytes of highly confidential design documents over their residential cable Internet connection to a giant NAS in their home, even with a VPN. And if they do, it probably doesn't fall under any definition of "legally"...
But even assuming some company is stupid enough to allow that, that's still 0.0000001% of the population, and if it's required by their job they will be able to expense any overages anyway.
Except I can almost never watch what I want on Netflix streaming. And in fact by contract (see "HBO window") almost nothing airing on HBO is available on Netflix...
It's not the physical business that increased costs, it's the streaming business. And they didn't want to tell you why it increased because they didn't want to have to point out the fact that a subscription model is not going to be a sustainable business for premium content.
When the studios are getting $3 per rental for new releases on VOD, hell will freeze over before they license all of their content for unlimited streaming to Netflix...
I have had the opposite experience. Our anecdotes therefore cancel out.
No they don't. The point was that it's not a replacement to cable for everyone. The point stands regardless of your interests.
What would you be downloading legally over your Internet connection that would require 135TB of space to store? Just curious...
Most people I know that use huge amounts of storage like that at home either rip their DVDs/BDs or download movies from bittorrent. I have to admit I don't feel much sympathy towards those hitting a data cap due to the latter...