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Hey Wal-Mart, do you like apples?
Topic Started: Dec 28 2007, 10:01 AM (186 Views)
Aqua Letifer
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ZOOOOOM!
Oh yes, the tide, it be turning!

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071...s-to-blame.html

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Wal-Mart, the leading DVD retailer, has announced plans to dismantle its commercial video download offering.

When Wal-Mart announced the service in February, we characterized it as underwhelming and predicted poor sales. In order to obtain distribution agreements with all of the major players, and to protect the sale of physical goods like DVDs, Wal-Mart allowed the studios to dictate the pricing model. New releases were priced equally with the physical DVDs and the content was all heavily encumbered with (Windows-only) DRM that prevented playback on more than one computer. Obviously, consumers didn't see any value in paying full price for diminished flexibility.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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Kincaid
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HOLY CARP!!!
Wonder what geniuses thought that one up? They obviously needed hipper advertising, like iTunes.
Kincaid - disgusted Republican Partisan since 2006.
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Aqua Letifer
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Kincaid
Dec 28 2007, 11:00 AM
Wonder what geniuses thought that one up? They obviously needed hipper advertising, like iTunes.

Yes indeed. Restrictive products sell a lot better if they're endorsed by dancing silhouettes. :lol:
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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Copper
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Aqua Letifer
Dec 28 2007, 02:07 PM
Kincaid
Dec 28 2007, 11:00 AM
Wonder what geniuses thought that one up?  They obviously needed hipper advertising, like iTunes.

Yes indeed. Restrictive products sell a lot better if they're endorsed by dancing silhouettes. :lol:


That really does work well on teenagers.

I'm amazed every time I see it, but I have to admit it works.
The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy
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Kincaid
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HOLY CARP!!!
I bought two.
Kincaid - disgusted Republican Partisan since 2006.
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