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Stardock's Annual 2011 Customer Report ( Adobe Acrobat format) has the private company's latest public assessment of where they stand. They discuss game plans, their desktop apps, and the sale of Impulse, which the report's conclusion says will lead to visible results: Conclusions 2011 was Stardock’s most successful year since its incorporation in 1993. It used the capital gained from the sale of Impulse to bring in world-class talent and evaluate the accelerating trends in consumer software. Over the next 18 months, it hopes to begin announcing a wide range of new products, games, and technologies.
For our industry, it’s a time of transition. The PC consumer market could potentially see a consolidation in which virtually all PC games are sold either through Steam, GameStop Impulse, Battle.net, or Origin while non-games end up on a Microsoft Marketplace type system.
While these changes are taking place, the mobile space is exploding. Developers who were once PC developers are migrating in ever greater number to either iOS or Android. And Apple, with AirPlay, is setting itself up to compete head-to-head with the next generation console offerings.
It is a good time to be a software developer. It’s an even better time to be a software consumer.
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Re: Stardock 2011 Customer Report |
Mar 22, 2012, 20:07 |
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Creston wrote on Mar 22, 2012, 16:13:
m0deth wrote on Mar 22, 2012, 13:02:
Stardock's money maker (before the one-time sale of Impulse/SDC) was their Windows customization products. I wonder how that fits into Windows 8.
If their app to bring back the start menu is any indication, they are still writing bloated, buggy, non-useful software as always. Oh yeah, and they are proud of this all somehow....gotta love marketers
I don't know what the hell you are talking about. Objectdock and Windowblinds are awesome.
He's not totally incorrect... They're still selling the very first thing I ever coded for $20. I did it by myself, with not a clue in the world, as I interned there for three months. It gets the job done but yeah lol.
I don't really feel too bad calling them out on that one because... that shit should be replaced 
This comment was edited on Mar 22, 2012, 23:09. |
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