Apple denies plan to kill music downloads, as evidence mounts Apple Music can delete existing libraries without permission
Yesterday, reports claimed that Apple was drawing up plans to leave digital music sales. …
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Playing the sales game: Do game releases actually increase console sales?
… Even so, the changes are small, and sales remained relatively stable. Annotated 360 unit sales Nov 26-May 13 So, what causes these peaks and valleys? There are countless variables in the global market, but the large changes can be adequately explained. …
Epic Game Store Titles Coming to Humble Store, With Exclusives
… The company won't collect commissions on Humble sales done through the Humble Store. …
Sony Plans to Sell Ads in PlayStation Games
… It’s instead “considering charging developers and publishers for data on consumer activity,” which would itself open up a new profit stream for the company. …
Microsoft's new Project Scorpio Xbox could blow the PS4 Pro out of the water, challenge high-end PCs
… Image by Digital Foundry Data from Digital Foundry Opens in a new window strongly suggests Scorpio is based on Polaris, not Vega. …
Windows 10 market share breaks 20 percent, but pace of growth still slowing
… As ComputerWorld points out, whether or not Microsoft continues its free upgrade policy past July 29 will have trickle-down effects on device sales and overall W10 uptake, yes -- but whether or not the company changes its UWP and privacy policies to allow users to change some of these settings coul… …
Global PC Sales Could Fall 30 Percent in 1H 2020, Economic Outlook Bleak
… A drop-off that large in laptop and desktop shipments will kill sales of the components used to build those systems. We might see some buffering effect, in the end, Q1 data because companies will need to rebuild some inventory after weeks of disrupted shipments. …
Nvidia Reportedly Ready to Give Up on Its Acquisition of ARM
… The spaces it wants to break into, like PC and data center, are an uphill challenge against entrenched competitors. …
AMD analyst day sketches big picture, leaves critical details unanswered
… AMD changed how it reports revenue after the Xbox One and PS4 began shipping, so these results only show revenue for the computing solutions and graphics industries from 2011 - 2014. AMD has lost more than half its sales in CPUs and GPUs since 2011. …
AMD R9 and R7 GPUs: A bold new direction for 2014 that uses old rebadged chips from 2012
… AMD's TrueAudio is meant to change that and bring a new level of sophistication to the system if the company can drive adoption. …