I have always wondered what was encoded on those things. Mine doesn't have one on it, unfortunately (or maybe it isn't). Does anybody know what states licenses contain these barcodes and who is planning on implementing them?
As long as people like my grandmother continue to use a cell phone while she lives in Lforida for 6 months out of a year to call home, there is a rather large market for plain cell phones. I think it would be a huge misstep for the big makers to stop creating these.
Think about it: less time to research if all you have to do is add addresses and limited functionality web browsing. All your designers can move on to more important stuff that grabs money from the movers and shakers and you can continue selling cheap phones to Grandma and Grandpa and keep that part of your market.
Cell phones are getting ridculously complex, but there will not be a loss of plain phones anytime soon, just a flood of more complex phones.
The thrill of Halo lies in the multiplayer friend. The single player campaign is just there to warm you up and provide some target practice, trust me. After you get better and play with 6 or more people you'll understand what it's all about.
Haven't you heard the rumors (which is what all this is at this point)? Rumors also say that subscribers to Xbox Live will be given 1 to 2 GB of storage space on their servers so users can access their downloads of game updates anywhere they go, not just on their home console.
Microsoft hasn't confirmed any of this nor the fact that Xbox Next will be coming out in 2005 instead of 2006. I think this may have been leaked just so Microsoft could see what kind of reaction they get. Believe it or not, when it comes to Xbox they seem to pay attention to the consumer's desires.
What most people don't understand about the Xbox is that it was adopted first and most widely by adults with actual paying jobs. The Gamecube played only "kids games" and everybody on the block had a PS2. So people who actually have the money to spend on these hobbies are the ones that initially bought them.
For this reason, Xbox has the highest number of software sold per system. I myself bought one of these with Halo the week it came out and it cost me almost $400 bucks. But I had the money and the job to buy the games I wanted and now I have nearly 20 games for the system. 20 games * $50 = $1000.
Obviously not every one of my games was $50 but that's still a lot of return money for the $100 they were losing on the system sell. I think MS has the advantage of having support from a large group of users who can afford to buy the games themselves rather than wait until mommy or daddy can pick one up for their birthday.
Add to that Xbox Live which is easily the better of the two online gaming entities and you've got a lot going for the Xbox. There's no way MS will let this system go by way of the Dreamcast, they have too much muscle and too much money already invested. The cases just aren't similar at all.
My question was - how buying a $3000 Plasma TV or a $3000 LCD TV any different from one of the $2000 LCD monitors Apple sells in their online store (non linkable to the product pages) ? Wouldn't you want to see it before buying as well?
Well, you can see apple's LCD monitors in physical stores if you really want to. Dell doesn't have physical stores where you can check out the image of such a big purchase. That's the point, that option isn't there for Dell or Gateway, it is for apple.
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I have always wondered what was encoded on those things. Mine doesn't have one on it, unfortunately (or maybe it isn't). Does anybody know what states licenses contain these barcodes and who is planning on implementing them?
As long as people like my grandmother continue to use a cell phone while she lives in Lforida for 6 months out of a year to call home, there is a rather large market for plain cell phones. I think it would be a huge misstep for the big makers to stop creating these.
Think about it: less time to research if all you have to do is add addresses and limited functionality web browsing. All your designers can move on to more important stuff that grabs money from the movers and shakers and you can continue selling cheap phones to Grandma and Grandpa and keep that part of your market.
Cell phones are getting ridculously complex, but there will not be a loss of plain phones anytime soon, just a flood of more complex phones.
The thrill of Halo lies in the multiplayer friend. The single player campaign is just there to warm you up and provide some target practice, trust me. After you get better and play with 6 or more people you'll understand what it's all about.
Haven't you heard the rumors (which is what all this is at this point)? Rumors also say that subscribers to Xbox Live will be given 1 to 2 GB of storage space on their servers so users can access their downloads of game updates anywhere they go, not just on their home console.
Microsoft hasn't confirmed any of this nor the fact that Xbox Next will be coming out in 2005 instead of 2006. I think this may have been leaked just so Microsoft could see what kind of reaction they get. Believe it or not, when it comes to Xbox they seem to pay attention to the consumer's desires.
What most people don't understand about the Xbox is that it was adopted first and most widely by adults with actual paying jobs. The Gamecube played only "kids games" and everybody on the block had a PS2. So people who actually have the money to spend on these hobbies are the ones that initially bought them.
For this reason, Xbox has the highest number of software sold per system. I myself bought one of these with Halo the week it came out and it cost me almost $400 bucks. But I had the money and the job to buy the games I wanted and now I have nearly 20 games for the system. 20 games * $50 = $1000.
Obviously not every one of my games was $50 but that's still a lot of return money for the $100 they were losing on the system sell. I think MS has the advantage of having support from a large group of users who can afford to buy the games themselves rather than wait until mommy or daddy can pick one up for their birthday.
Add to that Xbox Live which is easily the better of the two online gaming entities and you've got a lot going for the Xbox. There's no way MS will let this system go by way of the Dreamcast, they have too much muscle and too much money already invested. The cases just aren't similar at all.