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by wavephorm 5352 days ago
This article focused on hardware. The more interesting trend is in desktop software -- nobody is making it anymore.

Microsoft has so succesfully strangled the life out of the software industry that it is now a wasteland. Today, all games are for consoles, all mini-games are iphone games, all enterprise software is moving to the cloud, all productivity software is written as web services....

This is why the PC is dead meat.
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Troll_Whisperer 5352 days ago
>Today, all games are for consoles, all mini-games are iphone games

Then I guess I've been living in some fantasy world with Starcraft II, Diablo 3 beta and new games every week at Kongregate. I like it though, so please don't wake me up. I can barely even imagine an RTS on a console and I don't think it would be worthy of even playing let alone watching e-sports casts of others play!

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protomyth 5352 days ago
The consoles and iOS are great game targets because they are standard (consoles) or have a limited variation set (iOS). I see a lot more software every day in the Mac App store, and verticals are still more PC than any online version.
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