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Apple and Google Vying for Exclusive Games from Developers With Promotional Perks
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They are all easy to find through torrent trackers within days (sometimes, hours) of being released.
But enough exclusives not available on your platform might be a deciding factor when you're in the market for a new device. If one does this, the other has to fight back or else one side will have all the good exclusives to where it really will be a deciding factor for a lot of people. In the beginning, Apple kind of exclusively had all of the good apps and games just because, which is one of the reasons I decided against Android originally.
I'd rather have Apple create a game engine that's exclusive to iOS and OSX. They could buy the unreal engine or something.
Haters gonna hate!
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Well which is it? Should they make it or buy it? I'm getting mixed signals from you man.
Are you for real... Talk about pedantics.. So if I want to usr Google earth how much does it cost me...zilch.. if I want to do a Google search.. zilch.. if I want to watch a vid on YouTube.. zilch... So I've given Google zero pennies so remind me again how it isn't free... Please don't say they give my search options to advertisers...and.... How is that costing me money....?.
Wait... Something is wrong here. Why I see tons of people commenting about how bad Apple is on Macrumors? I mean this is an Apple based forum, if you don't like Apple why are you still here? You can post a lot of comments about bashing Apple on Android forums and I bet a lot of people will listen you.
You're welcome... you gotta let people have the short rants in life...
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As long as the fruit isn't spying on them...
Sorry, but that is just a load a rubbish.
First of all, those items you mentioned from Google are long-shot, vaporware products that will probably never see the light of day.
And, secondly, you can't assume that the only thing Apple is doing is talking about this one thing because, unlike Google, Apple doesn't announce things ahead of time so the blogs can make a big deal out of it and PR shill for them.
Why? 9/10 exclusives are the reason WHY we choose a platform or WHY a game is so special.
90's gaming was brilliant because you had exclusives; now we have awful ports of games made for one platform and ported to others.
I hate modern day gamers.
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That front page or editor selection position is very valuable. If a developer wants to do an exclusive in return for that position, so be it. The developer is probably developing for iOS first anyway and it will take them time to port to Android. So what if exclusivity extends that time by a few weeks.
That front page or editor selection position is very valuable. If a developer wants to do an exclusive in return for that position, so be it. The developer is probably developing for iOS first anyway and it will take them time to port to Android. So what if exclusivity extends that time by a few weeks.
I don't get this as business practice from a competitive view but i do from a loyalty one.
There is no advantage to an exclusive from a consumer perspective because you are basically halving the number of people who could be buying and playing your game.
I think it works differently than this. Instead the developer gets more downloads to compensate losses with increased visibility in the store. In turn the developer relationship breeds loyalty to the exclusive side and sees massively increased sales on that platform leading them to think it was a good choice.
In reality it's just shifting the balance of loyalty.
I think a better way is to ask developers if they want payment in shares rather than money and lessen the % taken by the store. This way the developer has a vested interest in the store that sells the most. Doing a deal like this for visibility on the store would absolutely swallow the competition.
There is no advantage to an exclusive from a consumer perspective because you are basically halving the number of people who could be buying and playing your game.
I think it works differently than this. Instead the developer gets more downloads to compensate losses with increased visibility in the store. In turn the developer relationship breeds loyalty to the exclusive side and sees massively increased sales on that platform leading them to think it was a good choice.
In reality it's just shifting the balance of loyalty.
I think a better way is to ask developers if they want payment in shares rather than money and lessen the % taken by the store. This way the developer has a vested interest in the store that sells the most. Doing a deal like this for visibility on the store would absolutely swallow the competition.
There are still plenty of Playstation exclusives out there as well as Xbox exclusives, which does sway people when it comes to buying a console. I'll only buy PS because I like to play MGS...
Exclusives still exist not sure why you think that disappeared. I don't see ports for Metal Gear Solid on the xbox etc
Games are one of the top attractors for a platform.
This is one reason PC had far more games than Mac.
Consider also the game industry is worth BILLIONS .
I think Apple needs far more investment to game (entertainment) projects.
This is one reason PC had far more games than Mac.
Consider also the game industry is worth BILLIONS .
I think Apple needs far more investment to game (entertainment) projects.
Lol, 40% of the world's android users aren't even running an up to date version of android that's capable of playing these new "exclusive" games.
Oh, I'm sorry, "only" 34% are running completely antiquated versions of android. While only about 5% are running the newest version. That link doesn't complement android very well.
Your sig proposed a question, I have the answer.
"iPod Photo Cache" is where the resized versions of photos from your library are stored before they are synced to your iPhone, iPad, etc... The idea is that they only have to be resized once for each device, and they are stored there so that they don't have to be reconverted every time you sync.
You can delete the folder, but if you sync a lot of photos to your device the next sync will take a very long time because all the resized versions have to be regenerated. Sometimes if there are problems with syncing photos, you can fix them by deleting this folder..but just deleting it because it's there is not a great idea.
Hope I cleared that up for you and you can change to a better sig, like "Can Rarity's obsession with gems be considered a fetish?"
Android users don't buy anything. Doesn't make sense to cater to people who won't spend any money or will spend less money no matter what you try to sell them. Google is better to focus on getting the games later and for a cheaper price for consumers. App devs would be out of their minds to cater to a platform who's claim to fame is being the cheap option.