The Apple iPhone App Store has revolutionised IP publishing over the last year and a bit. Tens of thousands of apps, billions of downloads. A business model that is so elegant and pervasive that it has now been widely imitated for a variety of platforms, but not yet for the PC.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.
What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.
We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.
If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."
who need apps store on pc when we have torrent xD
we can download softwares movies music (windows system) all for free.
windows 7 is my next download and that what the apple app store lack
But even without the scummy thievery of some there are still thousands of quality free offerings to the PC, unlike Apple etc.
Google is my app store: I can get AV, office, OS, any media recording/editing, etc etc software. All quality and ALL FREE!
We don't need no stinking proprietary Apple cr4p on PCs, I wouldn't (for example) install the rubbish that is iTunes anywhere near my PC!
http://download.cnet.com/wi...
go there, search for what you want and purchase it.
or you can just google it, go to the website of whatever software you want and buy it straight from them. 90% of reputable software companies have a store.
If you want games?
Direct to drive
steam
amazon
consoles?
marketplace
PS store
vcon
And not to mention almost all of the apps for the iphone/touch are the equivalent of freeware you can get on the PC.
As much as I love my iPhone, the Appstore is one hard place to look for good non crappy software. Majority of the apps on the store are shovelware.
Why do you need a shop for software when demo's can be made available and developers can sell direct circumventing third parties trying to take their slice of the pie? It's like saying the best thing for the customer would be to move CD's/MP3's into a high street shop and sell them there instead - we saw how bad that was for the consumer.