> Isn't the future of the gaming is in the browser?
I'm of the belief that the amount of revenue that can be squeezed out of games written by Zynga and the like represents a relatively small share of the overall gaming market.
I think there will always be gamers who want full-screen games with large assets -- and there's no plugin or browser subsystem that adequately delivers that experience, and the content files for a modern 3D game are often a little too large to host remotely. Especially on phones.
> Operating software wars feels meaningless and ridiculous these days
Apple's App Store, Microsoft's secure-boot and app-store ecosystem lockdown attempts that numerous others have commented on in this thread, Android's capture of a significant portion of the mobile market, Linux's powers waxing by the year, the fall of Sun and the implosion of Solaris...
The OS wars are getting interesting again! For many years there was more-or-less total stagnation in the market, with Windows ascendant, a few UNIX flavors and the remnants of OS/2 holding their own in the business market, IBM in full retreat from the PC market, and all competitors struggling to survive with marginal userbases for many years after Microsoft's decisive victory over IBM OS/2 in the mid '90s.
I'm of the belief that the amount of revenue that can be squeezed out of games written by Zynga and the like represents a relatively small share of the overall gaming market.
I think there will always be gamers who want full-screen games with large assets -- and there's no plugin or browser subsystem that adequately delivers that experience, and the content files for a modern 3D game are often a little too large to host remotely. Especially on phones.
> Operating software wars feels meaningless and ridiculous these days
Apple's App Store, Microsoft's secure-boot and app-store ecosystem lockdown attempts that numerous others have commented on in this thread, Android's capture of a significant portion of the mobile market, Linux's powers waxing by the year, the fall of Sun and the implosion of Solaris...
The OS wars are getting interesting again! For many years there was more-or-less total stagnation in the market, with Windows ascendant, a few UNIX flavors and the remnants of OS/2 holding their own in the business market, IBM in full retreat from the PC market, and all competitors struggling to survive with marginal userbases for many years after Microsoft's decisive victory over IBM OS/2 in the mid '90s.