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What bothers me most, is the cynicism of it all. I don't care if someone is out to make a game that is so fun it's addictive. But to engineer a money-making device and to disguise it as a game makes you a real POS in my eyes.
I reserve most of my scorn for the developers that peddle crapware with tons of in-game virtual purchases. It's a fine line, what Apple itself does. On one hand it is tremendously convenient to buy from them when I find a good product I want, on the other, that's just the problem, -it's too easy. They actually just cracked down on in game purchases this past year, it used to be that you did t need a password EVERY time you made an in game purchase, -now you do. I was, of course, a major revenue drop, but I think even Apple was aware of how almost usury-like that was, with these devices in the hands of kids. I think they should also let you download freeware without having a valid credit card attached, and only have you initiate that process when you want to purchase something.
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* I was, of course, a major revenue drop, but I think even Apple was aware of how almost usury-like that was, with these devices in the hands of kids.*
The cynic in me says that is wasn't so much the nature of it, but the legal issues of having kids buying these things with a credit card without some control. I think they should also let you download freeware without having a valid credit card attached, and only have you initiate that process when you want to purchase something. Yeah, but that would hurt their revenue. :) You know, public company, shareholders before anything that isn't illegal.
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Revenue drop is right. I must have purchased 3 albums from iTunes (when I swore I wouldn't). Every time I was just hanging out with my girlfriend talking about music, and thought 'she should hear this'. Literally a couple clicks later we are listening to it. Sigh. They were all albums that I had repurchased at least twice on CD over the years but have scratched or lost. I guess the small silver lining with iCloud is that it's now impossible to lose them.... :|
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Well now every song or app you ever purchased is available for download to any iOS device at any time (besides music being physically downloaded to say, your harddrive). So I guess there could be a catastrophic failure with the service and you lose you hard drive simultaneously. Let's just say it would be extremely difficult to lose it. I bet I could do it though...
Revenue drop is right. I must have purchased 3 albums from iTunes (when I swore I wouldn't). Every time I was just hanging out with my girlfriend talking about music, and thought 'she should hear this'. Literally a couple clicks later we are listening to it. Sigh. They were all albums that I had repurchased at least twice on CD over the years but have scratched or lost. I guess the small silver lining with iCloud is that it's now impossible to lose them.... :|