When is the last time you bought software in a store?
Muggles use gmail, muggles download apps from the App Store. They might find a 15 year old copy of Backyard Basketball from Ollie’s Discount Store but they lack the mad skills, if not the optical drive to run it, never mind in stall it.
GameStop lumbers on because day traders are bored, I guess somebody bought a BluRay the other day that is really a big Java applet. Maybe you can get physical media for Win 11 but most people will never need it.
I meant that a regular user might buy from the Play Store, either of Apple's App stores, or from the Microsoft store.
Admittedly, I seldom buy software from those stores myself -- or, indeed, at all. The things I'm interested in are often available as open source, or they are like $30 or $40 USD (or sometimes $200) and it is hard for me to justify the price (although, if I were single, I could do it on a whim).
Well, I'm frugal by nature, have six kids, and hope to retire some day. I'll spent $500 Cdn on a car repair (when necessary) but think twice for $15 eating out by myself. $40 for an application I want is a hard one for me -- it has to provide a clear value that I can't reasonably substitute for.
Muggles use gmail, muggles download apps from the App Store. They might find a 15 year old copy of Backyard Basketball from Ollie’s Discount Store but they lack the mad skills, if not the optical drive to run it, never mind in stall it.
GameStop lumbers on because day traders are bored, I guess somebody bought a BluRay the other day that is really a big Java applet. Maybe you can get physical media for Win 11 but most people will never need it.