I've seen much bigger problems with cell phone internet than this. For instance, there's the tactic of selling "4G" service with the caveat that you get 4G speeds on "preferred websites" for the first 200MB, and then get throttled down. Give us net neutrality on phones first, then start working on regulating how they can sell it.
The article makes it seem like the retracted Nature articles were why he committed suicide (or a major contributor to it).. but they weren't really his fault. Haruko Obokata was the lead researcher on those, and also the person responsible for fabricating the research results. Sure, his name was on it as a co-author, but that sounds more like the result of office politics than actually believing what she was publishing. Even his employer seemed like they held him in high regard after the scandal broke.
Sucks to see a man driven to suicide by something he didn't do.
Not to detract from his contributions to science, but the photo of him in the Medium article makes him look like some sort of Parakeet Wizard. How he stayed sane with 40 parakeets in his house is something I will never understand.
There's a line in the IT World article that really stands out at me, which is:
"Autonomy founder and CEO Mike Lynch, who was ousted from HP in 2012, has denied any wrongdoing, saying publicly that HP was aware of Autonomy's accounting practices..."
So in this case, Autonomy is making the case that they were cooking their books, but committing accounting fraud is perfectly okay because HP should've known about it... or am I missing something here?
Is it as Ruben Santamarta says, that the plane's satellite communications system can be hacked into via the plane's wifi? Or is it as the manufacturers say, and the hacker would have to have physical access to the hardware and couldn't do much of anything anyway? There's two very different points of view here and I'm not sure how they're supposed to meet up.
As someone who has worked in the newspaper industry, the problem is that it's very hard to get advertisers online, and even harder to make money with an online newspaper. The problem is that the advertisers know how much power they have over the paper/website, and will exert it to the fullest extent they can, threatening to drop their ads if they don't get 100% of what they want.
For instance, the statewide paper in my state gets a lot of advertising from Sleepy's, a big national mattress chain. They used to run a "Consumer Watchdog" column once a week that mostly looked at businesses operating in the state - a lot of them were people complaining about their cell phone providers, which was fine because the papers had zero advertising (at the time) from Big Telco.
A few years ago, there was a scandal where a bunch of people claimed they bought mattresses at Sleepy's that were delivered containing bedbugs. I'm not sure if the allegations were true or not - there were at least five or six documented accounts of people buying these mattresses and the store refusing to do anything about it once the mattresses were delivered, which leads me to believe they were probably true, but who knows? The person who did the Consumer Watchdog column tried to do a story on it, which was immediately shot down because Sleepy's threatened to drop their advertising if the story came out. The reporter wound up getting fired, and released the story on his personal blog. With the Watchdog column gone, a few weeks later the paper started to get heavy advertising from Big Telco, who now did not have to deal with the Watchdog guy calling them every week about phone bills.
The problem is that when you run a newspaper, you don't run the newspaper - the advertisers are your gods and masters, and you have no say in the matter.
The article headline here makes it sound like Japan is getting ready to start space warfare, when in fact the article itself says that this program is meant to protect existing orbital assets by tracking space debris. I don't get why they use the term "fourth battlefield" in the article either, since it doesn't seem like anyone affiliated with this program actually said that. If anything, this sounds like it could lead to efforts to capture space junk and dispose of it safely.
I object to the idea that humans are anything like cows. In fact, we're more like sheep, which are easier to herd, hairier, and generally taste worse than beef does.
What made Sony invest in this is how they couldn't even get PS1/PS2 compatibility on the PS3. They tried several different methods, but they either didn't work or worked so poorly that they were later removed from the console.
The first-gen (launch) PS3s were unique in that they have hardware-based compatibility, which was Sony's first attempt at making them backwards-compatible. They have the best compatibility of all the PS3s because they essentially have a semi-complete set of PS2 hardware inside the console with the PS3 hardware. The problem here was that not all games were compatible, and even had different compatibility between different versions of the same hardware (the initial 20/40GB ones known as CECH-A and CECH-B versus the slightly later 60/80GB ones known as CECH-D and CECH-E). This means that it's entirely possible a game will work on a CECH-A or B PS3 but not at all on a CECH-D or E PS3. One of the better-known games this occurs with is La Pucelle: Tactics, which won't work at all on the D or E models but will on the A or B models.
The hardware compatibility was so much of a headache for Sony that they shifted the second generation of PS3s from hardware compatibility to emulation. This somehow managed to be even worse than the hardware compatibility to the point where Sony actually patched it out in a firmware update a few years later. From then on, PS3s could play PS1 games, but not PS2 games.
If they couldn't get it right with the PS3 in 2007, there's no way they'd repeat it for the PS4.
I don't get what the article's author is thinking, exactly. There have been dozens upon dozens of articles written about how millennials aren't doing things - they aren't buying cars (except cheap used ones), they aren't buying houses, they aren't getting married. As someone who is under 30 and technically a millennial, I can attest to this. I know exactly zero people under the age of thirty who have jobs that pay $20 or more an hour - the highest I've seen is $17.50, for a girl who works one cube over from me.
I'm a temp who gets paid $10 an hour to do half the workload of a person who gets paid several times what I do and drives a Lexus to work, on top of some pointless data entry that is supposed to be done by an automated program (but isn't because they're taking forever to code it). Six months (and counting) at the same place, where I've been told I have exactly zero chance of ever getting hired on a permanent basis for actual money. I don't exactly make enough money to be financially independent, let alone go out on trips and stay at hotels. Between student loan payments, car insurance payments, and going back to school in the fall (I have a BA but it's not doing me any good) I have a net income of very, very little.
To me, this sounds more like "We had millenials working our hotels for minimum wage, let's get rid of them and replace them with an automated system. That way, we don't have to pay them."
CNN had an article on this shortly before it popped up here. In their article, they said that an Ebola vaccine is well underway, with trials expected to begin in humans soon. It's apparently been proven effective in monkeys already. I was a little concerned before I read that, but if they've got a working vaccine, it's really not a big deal.
There's one thing I don't get about that, though. From what I've read, they've found ice on Mars. What's stopping them from simply making a robot dedicated to harvesting and melting the ice into an artificial "lake" and introducing photosynthetic bacteria to It to get oxygen?
As someone who owns a PC and just bought a backwards-compatible PS3, I can say that owning a PS3 really isn't redundant. Owning a 360 is, because MS is pretty open about having 360 games ported to the PC, but Sony are tightwads with anything that lands on their system. For instance, after how well-received Dark Souls was on the PC, FROM wanted to port Demon's Souls... but couldn't, because Sony insisted upon owning the IP to Demon's Souls when it was released.
Now, owning a PS4 is a different beast altogether. I was initially going to buy a PS4 so I could play through some of the PS3 games I missed (Demon's Souls, Valkyria Chronicles, Jojo All Star Battle, Dragon's Crown, Dragon's Dogma) and catch up on the last two major upcoming releases for the PS3 (Persona 5 and Persona 4 Arena: Ultimax). I was all set to blow $400 on a PS4.. only to find out that the PS4 isn't at all backwards compatible with the PS3 and likely never will be outside of being able to do "timed rentals" of PS3 stuff on Gaikai and stream it.. but that won't happen until sometime in 2015.
Naturally, I went with the PS3, and I've got no regrets.
If you read the proposal by the House of Lords, it's completely infeasible. What they want is for websites to have verified identity information on hand, but then allow people to post anonymously or using a pseudonym. This is infeasible for several reasons, mostly that to truly verify someone's identity, you need a government-issued ID number. I'm not British, but in the US, that would be the Social Security Number. Now, let me tell you what happens when a government forces SSN identification for things that should not need an SSN.
Some time ago, there was an insanely popular MMORPG in South Korea known as Lineage 2. The administrators behind Lineage 2 (I believe the game was owned by Microsoft but I can't say for sure) required that anyone registering a Lineage 2 account (which required a monthly fee) give them their Korean Social Security Number (KSSN) which works exactly like the US SSN does. I don't recall whether this was because the Korean government was scared of anonymity and demanded it, or because the game's owners wanted it for verification and were not required to get KSSNs by the government, but in any case, a KSSN was required to play the game.
A few years later, Lineage 2 got hacked. The database of KSSNs they had was leaked, meaning that the identities of thousands of people were freely available on the internet. After the Korean government learned of the Lineage 2 hack, they actually tightened their restrictions - all MMORPGs operating in Korea were now required to ask for a KSSN upon account registration, even for F2P games.
The result is that any time an MMORPG gets hacked in Korea, KSSNs get dumped. It also led to things like mass identity theft - players from outside Korea who wanted to play the Korean version of various MMOs (the ones based in Korea are usually regularly updated in Korean but not in the International versions) would have to find a leaked KSSN and use it.
Requiring an identity verification for anything but the most major financial transactions (insurance, banks, employment) should never happen. A credit card verification is different - you can verify a credit or debit card without needing an SSN - and should be enough for pretty much everywhere.
Why hasn't John Brennan been fired yet? If this was any private company in the United States, he'd have been fired on the spot for lying to his superiors for months and trying to cover up his own incompetence.
It's not about being able to magically colonize space, it's about saving money and improving shuttle fuel economy. I forget what the cost per pound to send something into space is, but I remember it being in the range of thousands of dollars per pound in fuel. If you could use this to reduce the weight of a vessel by even a few kilograms, you would be saving tens of thousands per launch on fuel costs. Alternatively, that's a few kilograms that can be devoted to experiments rather than the weight of the shuttle.
The same thing goes for any other type of fuel-burning vehicle.
From the article, it seems like this attack is done by hardware-modifying a USB stick so that the firmware can be changed. While I get that this is a major problem for organizations that have a bunch of computers that could potentially have one of these things inserted into them, for most people it doesn't seem like a problem. The most I can see happening with this is someone putting bad firmware onto a USB device and selling them on EBay or similar as a means of stealing people's data, but I think that would be pretty easy to track - when a whole bunch of people who all bought things from one person suddenly notice that their credit card numbers were stolen, law enforcement will figure out the trick pretty quickly.
"We can't tell what the filming of Star Wars on the site will do to the wildlife."
I can see a whole lot of lawsuits from all of the puffins, manx shearwaters, storm petrels, guillemots, and kittiwakes who don't want to appear in a modern Star Wars film. Can't say I blame them, not after Episodes 1 through 3.
It's not really surprising (to me, anyway) that Crytek is failing as a publisher. Homefront was the most generic FPS ever made. It didn't sell, and the reviewers barely had anything at all to say about it - though what little did come out essentially boiled down to it being a really mediocre game that was essentially the product of a marketing team (who saw Call of Duty and Battlefield and wanted a piece of that action) rather than people trying to make a good game. The same thing goes for Crysis, which was basically a graphics benchmark in the guise of a game (to this day, I've never heard anyone talk about Crysis outside of using it as a benchmark).
The only people I really feel sorry for are Free Radical - I know they had a Kickstarter up at one point to get a new TimeSplitters out on Steam, and I think it got funded, but I don't know if it's coming out now. If they're still making it I hope they find someone else to publish it or self-publish.
About five years ago, I had a friend who was in school getting his Master's in Topology. I haven't spoken with him since then (due to both of us being busy and losing contact) but my guess is that he's got his PhD by now. At the time, there was a Wikipedia page, which I can't seem to find today, that was a list of well-known eccentrics - by that I mean people displaying eccentric behavior, not painters or electricians or any of the other multitude of ways that term is used.
I used to joke with this guy that he was becoming like John Nash, the schizophrenic game theorist (see: A Beautiful Mind) and writing math on his walls at night. He showed me the list of eccentrics, and I put him (his name is John Lynch) on there stating that he was known on the Boston University campus for covering his dorm walls in obscure mathematical formulas.
That edit lasted at LEAST three years, but I hadn't thought about it until now. If someone can find that article (assuming it's still up somewhere) I'd like to see if his name is still on it.
In this case, probably the computer systems. They've been using the same stuff since the missile sites were first built, to the point where they're still using 5-inch floppies to transfer data.
What I don't get is what the market for this is. The gaming aspect of it seems to be based on streaming games from a PC, and buying a PC good enough to do that costs a fair bit of money assuming you don't already have one. Game streaming also requires wireless internet access, which means you're probably not going to be taking it out of your home. There's also the issue of what you're going to do with it outside of game streaming - if you want something that can browse the internet when you're away from home, you'd be better off with a 4G phone than a wifi-based tablet.
The real gaming crowd is going to stick to physical PCs because of the superior experience they offer. The casual gaming crowd, who want to play games specifically released for iOS/Android, have cheaper options for accessing those games. Who is the target market?
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I've seen much bigger problems with cell phone internet than this. For instance, there's the tactic of selling "4G" service with the caveat that you get 4G speeds on "preferred websites" for the first 200MB, and then get throttled down. Give us net neutrality on phones first, then start working on regulating how they can sell it.
The article makes it seem like the retracted Nature articles were why he committed suicide (or a major contributor to it).. but they weren't really his fault. Haruko Obokata was the lead researcher on those, and also the person responsible for fabricating the research results. Sure, his name was on it as a co-author, but that sounds more like the result of office politics than actually believing what she was publishing. Even his employer seemed like they held him in high regard after the scandal broke.
Sucks to see a man driven to suicide by something he didn't do.
Not to detract from his contributions to science, but the photo of him in the Medium article makes him look like some sort of Parakeet Wizard. How he stayed sane with 40 parakeets in his house is something I will never understand.
There's a line in the IT World article that really stands out at me, which is:
"Autonomy founder and CEO Mike Lynch, who was ousted from HP in 2012, has denied any wrongdoing, saying publicly that HP was aware of Autonomy's accounting practices..."
So in this case, Autonomy is making the case that they were cooking their books, but committing accounting fraud is perfectly okay because HP should've known about it... or am I missing something here?
Is it as Ruben Santamarta says, that the plane's satellite communications system can be hacked into via the plane's wifi? Or is it as the manufacturers say, and the hacker would have to have physical access to the hardware and couldn't do much of anything anyway? There's two very different points of view here and I'm not sure how they're supposed to meet up.
As someone who has worked in the newspaper industry, the problem is that it's very hard to get advertisers online, and even harder to make money with an online newspaper. The problem is that the advertisers know how much power they have over the paper/website, and will exert it to the fullest extent they can, threatening to drop their ads if they don't get 100% of what they want.
For instance, the statewide paper in my state gets a lot of advertising from Sleepy's, a big national mattress chain. They used to run a "Consumer Watchdog" column once a week that mostly looked at businesses operating in the state - a lot of them were people complaining about their cell phone providers, which was fine because the papers had zero advertising (at the time) from Big Telco.
A few years ago, there was a scandal where a bunch of people claimed they bought mattresses at Sleepy's that were delivered containing bedbugs. I'm not sure if the allegations were true or not - there were at least five or six documented accounts of people buying these mattresses and the store refusing to do anything about it once the mattresses were delivered, which leads me to believe they were probably true, but who knows? The person who did the Consumer Watchdog column tried to do a story on it, which was immediately shot down because Sleepy's threatened to drop their advertising if the story came out. The reporter wound up getting fired, and released the story on his personal blog. With the Watchdog column gone, a few weeks later the paper started to get heavy advertising from Big Telco, who now did not have to deal with the Watchdog guy calling them every week about phone bills.
The problem is that when you run a newspaper, you don't run the newspaper - the advertisers are your gods and masters, and you have no say in the matter.
The article headline here makes it sound like Japan is getting ready to start space warfare, when in fact the article itself says that this program is meant to protect existing orbital assets by tracking space debris. I don't get why they use the term "fourth battlefield" in the article either, since it doesn't seem like anyone affiliated with this program actually said that. If anything, this sounds like it could lead to efforts to capture space junk and dispose of it safely.
I object to the idea that humans are anything like cows. In fact, we're more like sheep, which are easier to herd, hairier, and generally taste worse than beef does.
What made Sony invest in this is how they couldn't even get PS1/PS2 compatibility on the PS3. They tried several different methods, but they either didn't work or worked so poorly that they were later removed from the console.
The first-gen (launch) PS3s were unique in that they have hardware-based compatibility, which was Sony's first attempt at making them backwards-compatible. They have the best compatibility of all the PS3s because they essentially have a semi-complete set of PS2 hardware inside the console with the PS3 hardware. The problem here was that not all games were compatible, and even had different compatibility between different versions of the same hardware (the initial 20/40GB ones known as CECH-A and CECH-B versus the slightly later 60/80GB ones known as CECH-D and CECH-E). This means that it's entirely possible a game will work on a CECH-A or B PS3 but not at all on a CECH-D or E PS3. One of the better-known games this occurs with is La Pucelle: Tactics, which won't work at all on the D or E models but will on the A or B models.
The hardware compatibility was so much of a headache for Sony that they shifted the second generation of PS3s from hardware compatibility to emulation. This somehow managed to be even worse than the hardware compatibility to the point where Sony actually patched it out in a firmware update a few years later. From then on, PS3s could play PS1 games, but not PS2 games.
If they couldn't get it right with the PS3 in 2007, there's no way they'd repeat it for the PS4.
I don't get what the article's author is thinking, exactly. There have been dozens upon dozens of articles written about how millennials aren't doing things - they aren't buying cars (except cheap used ones), they aren't buying houses, they aren't getting married. As someone who is under 30 and technically a millennial, I can attest to this. I know exactly zero people under the age of thirty who have jobs that pay $20 or more an hour - the highest I've seen is $17.50, for a girl who works one cube over from me.
I'm a temp who gets paid $10 an hour to do half the workload of a person who gets paid several times what I do and drives a Lexus to work, on top of some pointless data entry that is supposed to be done by an automated program (but isn't because they're taking forever to code it). Six months (and counting) at the same place, where I've been told I have exactly zero chance of ever getting hired on a permanent basis for actual money. I don't exactly make enough money to be financially independent, let alone go out on trips and stay at hotels. Between student loan payments, car insurance payments, and going back to school in the fall (I have a BA but it's not doing me any good) I have a net income of very, very little.
To me, this sounds more like "We had millenials working our hotels for minimum wage, let's get rid of them and replace them with an automated system. That way, we don't have to pay them."
CNN had an article on this shortly before it popped up here. In their article, they said that an Ebola vaccine is well underway, with trials expected to begin in humans soon. It's apparently been proven effective in monkeys already. I was a little concerned before I read that, but if they've got a working vaccine, it's really not a big deal.
There's one thing I don't get about that, though. From what I've read, they've found ice on Mars. What's stopping them from simply making a robot dedicated to harvesting and melting the ice into an artificial "lake" and introducing photosynthetic bacteria to It to get oxygen?
As someone who owns a PC and just bought a backwards-compatible PS3, I can say that owning a PS3 really isn't redundant. Owning a 360 is, because MS is pretty open about having 360 games ported to the PC, but Sony are tightwads with anything that lands on their system. For instance, after how well-received Dark Souls was on the PC, FROM wanted to port Demon's Souls... but couldn't, because Sony insisted upon owning the IP to Demon's Souls when it was released.
Now, owning a PS4 is a different beast altogether. I was initially going to buy a PS4 so I could play through some of the PS3 games I missed (Demon's Souls, Valkyria Chronicles, Jojo All Star Battle, Dragon's Crown, Dragon's Dogma) and catch up on the last two major upcoming releases for the PS3 (Persona 5 and Persona 4 Arena: Ultimax). I was all set to blow $400 on a PS4.. only to find out that the PS4 isn't at all backwards compatible with the PS3 and likely never will be outside of being able to do "timed rentals" of PS3 stuff on Gaikai and stream it.. but that won't happen until sometime in 2015.
Naturally, I went with the PS3, and I've got no regrets.
If you read the proposal by the House of Lords, it's completely infeasible. What they want is for websites to have verified identity information on hand, but then allow people to post anonymously or using a pseudonym. This is infeasible for several reasons, mostly that to truly verify someone's identity, you need a government-issued ID number. I'm not British, but in the US, that would be the Social Security Number. Now, let me tell you what happens when a government forces SSN identification for things that should not need an SSN.
Some time ago, there was an insanely popular MMORPG in South Korea known as Lineage 2. The administrators behind Lineage 2 (I believe the game was owned by Microsoft but I can't say for sure) required that anyone registering a Lineage 2 account (which required a monthly fee) give them their Korean Social Security Number (KSSN) which works exactly like the US SSN does. I don't recall whether this was because the Korean government was scared of anonymity and demanded it, or because the game's owners wanted it for verification and were not required to get KSSNs by the government, but in any case, a KSSN was required to play the game.
A few years later, Lineage 2 got hacked. The database of KSSNs they had was leaked, meaning that the identities of thousands of people were freely available on the internet. After the Korean government learned of the Lineage 2 hack, they actually tightened their restrictions - all MMORPGs operating in Korea were now required to ask for a KSSN upon account registration, even for F2P games.
The result is that any time an MMORPG gets hacked in Korea, KSSNs get dumped. It also led to things like mass identity theft - players from outside Korea who wanted to play the Korean version of various MMOs (the ones based in Korea are usually regularly updated in Korean but not in the International versions) would have to find a leaked KSSN and use it.
Requiring an identity verification for anything but the most major financial transactions (insurance, banks, employment) should never happen. A credit card verification is different - you can verify a credit or debit card without needing an SSN - and should be enough for pretty much everywhere.
Why hasn't John Brennan been fired yet? If this was any private company in the United States, he'd have been fired on the spot for lying to his superiors for months and trying to cover up his own incompetence.
It's not about being able to magically colonize space, it's about saving money and improving shuttle fuel economy. I forget what the cost per pound to send something into space is, but I remember it being in the range of thousands of dollars per pound in fuel. If you could use this to reduce the weight of a vessel by even a few kilograms, you would be saving tens of thousands per launch on fuel costs. Alternatively, that's a few kilograms that can be devoted to experiments rather than the weight of the shuttle.
The same thing goes for any other type of fuel-burning vehicle.
From the article, it seems like this attack is done by hardware-modifying a USB stick so that the firmware can be changed. While I get that this is a major problem for organizations that have a bunch of computers that could potentially have one of these things inserted into them, for most people it doesn't seem like a problem. The most I can see happening with this is someone putting bad firmware onto a USB device and selling them on EBay or similar as a means of stealing people's data, but I think that would be pretty easy to track - when a whole bunch of people who all bought things from one person suddenly notice that their credit card numbers were stolen, law enforcement will figure out the trick pretty quickly.
"We can't tell what the filming of Star Wars on the site will do to the wildlife."
I can see a whole lot of lawsuits from all of the puffins, manx shearwaters, storm petrels, guillemots, and kittiwakes who don't want to appear in a modern Star Wars film. Can't say I blame them, not after Episodes 1 through 3.
It's not really surprising (to me, anyway) that Crytek is failing as a publisher. Homefront was the most generic FPS ever made. It didn't sell, and the reviewers barely had anything at all to say about it - though what little did come out essentially boiled down to it being a really mediocre game that was essentially the product of a marketing team (who saw Call of Duty and Battlefield and wanted a piece of that action) rather than people trying to make a good game. The same thing goes for Crysis, which was basically a graphics benchmark in the guise of a game (to this day, I've never heard anyone talk about Crysis outside of using it as a benchmark).
The only people I really feel sorry for are Free Radical - I know they had a Kickstarter up at one point to get a new TimeSplitters out on Steam, and I think it got funded, but I don't know if it's coming out now. If they're still making it I hope they find someone else to publish it or self-publish.
About five years ago, I had a friend who was in school getting his Master's in Topology. I haven't spoken with him since then (due to both of us being busy and losing contact) but my guess is that he's got his PhD by now. At the time, there was a Wikipedia page, which I can't seem to find today, that was a list of well-known eccentrics - by that I mean people displaying eccentric behavior, not painters or electricians or any of the other multitude of ways that term is used.
I used to joke with this guy that he was becoming like John Nash, the schizophrenic game theorist (see: A Beautiful Mind) and writing math on his walls at night. He showed me the list of eccentrics, and I put him (his name is John Lynch) on there stating that he was known on the Boston University campus for covering his dorm walls in obscure mathematical formulas.
That edit lasted at LEAST three years, but I hadn't thought about it until now. If someone can find that article (assuming it's still up somewhere) I'd like to see if his name is still on it.
In this case, probably the computer systems. They've been using the same stuff since the missile sites were first built, to the point where they're still using 5-inch floppies to transfer data.
No, a car's primary purpose is picking up chicks. Getting around is just a by-product of its intended function.
Is this the start of Death Printer: The 3D Printer that Prints Death? It'd be like a modern-day sequel to Death Bed: The Bed that Eats People.
What I don't get is what the market for this is. The gaming aspect of it seems to be based on streaming games from a PC, and buying a PC good enough to do that costs a fair bit of money assuming you don't already have one. Game streaming also requires wireless internet access, which means you're probably not going to be taking it out of your home. There's also the issue of what you're going to do with it outside of game streaming - if you want something that can browse the internet when you're away from home, you'd be better off with a 4G phone than a wifi-based tablet.
The real gaming crowd is going to stick to physical PCs because of the superior experience they offer. The casual gaming crowd, who want to play games specifically released for iOS/Android, have cheaper options for accessing those games. Who is the target market?
4chan's video games board has a growing image titled "Victims of EA" that's been circulating for quite a while. Off the top of my head:
Bullfrog (Dungeon Keeper)
Origin Systems
Westwood (C&C)
Visceral Games (Dead Space)
Bioware
Maxis
DICE (Battlefield)
There were more, I just don't remember them all.