This "gas" analogy is weak as hell.
I bet there would be quite an uproar if people bought cars from GM and their mileage dropped from 30 mpg to 10 mpg over the course of a year or two.
I would be mad anyway, but then again, I own an iPod. WHAAAAH!!!
All this means is that sports games can only be branded "ESPN " by EA. That doesn't stop anyone else from making an NBA | NFL | videogame....right? ESPN is just a cable channel afterall.
yeah, bad analogy.
the grocery store doesn't sell the same can of spam over and over, do they?
i could see there being a cost of storing it on a server to download and a royalty check to the publisher/author, but that's about it.
I agree. I was curious about purchasing an "eBook" from amazon dot com to read on my pocket PC, but was instantly turned off at the fact that the price for the physical book was identical to the digital version.
Less material to make the product(no material, i should say), no shipping cost from the publisher to the distributor, so why the same price?
I don't get it.
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What? Redundant?
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I should have wrote something like:
"I for one, welcome our new Microsoft clustering overlords!"
And windows doesnt support clustering yet - in any decent way shape or form Ummm.. yes it does: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technol ogies/clustering/default.mspx
This "gas" analogy is weak as hell. I bet there would be quite an uproar if people bought cars from GM and their mileage dropped from 30 mpg to 10 mpg over the course of a year or two. I would be mad anyway, but then again, I own an iPod. WHAAAAH!!!
All this means is that sports games can only be branded "ESPN " by EA. That doesn't stop anyone else from making an NBA | NFL | videogame....right? ESPN is just a cable channel afterall.
ohhhh yeah! orange dirt and orange rocks...!who woulda thunk?
ummm. who listens to their ipod in a nightclub?
yeah, bad analogy. the grocery store doesn't sell the same can of spam over and over, do they? i could see there being a cost of storing it on a server to download and a royalty check to the publisher/author, but that's about it.
I agree. I was curious about purchasing an "eBook" from amazon dot com to read on my pocket PC, but was instantly turned off at the fact that the price for the physical book was identical to the digital version. Less material to make the product(no material, i should say), no shipping cost from the publisher to the distributor, so why the same price? I don't get it.
maybe the manufacturer was just doing you a favor by trying to protect you and your mom from celine dion.