Hoping for a Mac version right out of the box!

[EmpireOfCats]

Continuing our helpful hints to Firaxis about which decision on a Mac version would be the right one, today we check out a study by Deutsche Bank:

While Apple has just 7% of the share of revenue, it's grabbing 35% of the operating profit. Deutsche Bank attributes it to the strength of the Mac/Macbook lineup. Other companies are losing profit margins because they have to pay Microsoft for software.​

(Via Daring Fireball)

A lot of people here have been talking about market share, while others have been talking about market share growth. Now we add another factor: Strength of the platform. HP and Dell and Lenovo are hurting because of the infamous "Microsoft tax". Even without the added profit from iPods, iPhones, and (probably) iPads, that bodes well for Apple's long-term future.

Hey, Firaxis, how about siding with the winners?

 

[civ_king]

Continuing our helpful hints to Firaxis about which decision on a Mac version would be the right one, today we check out a study by Deutsche Bank:

While Apple has just 7% of the share of revenue, it's grabbing 35% of the operating profit. Deutsche Bank attributes it to the strength of the Mac/Macbook lineup. Other companies are losing profit margins because they have to pay Microsoft for software.​

(Via Daring Fireball)

A lot of people here have been talking about market share, while others have been talking about market share growth. Now we add another factor: Strength of the platform. HP and Dell and Lenovo are hurting because of the infamous "Microsoft tax". Even without the added profit from iPods, iPhones, and (probably) iPads, that bodes well for Apple's long-term future.

Hey, Firaxis, how about siding with the winners?

with luck, Apple will lower the prices on the Macs to increase the major pain on the other computer makers,

 

[LordRahl]

Hey, Firaxis, how about siding with the winners?

They are - the game is already coming out for PCs .

 

[civ_king]

They are - the game is already coming out for PCs .

If you invested in Apple in late 1997 like my uncle you would be rich, shares went from
$4 when he bought to $229 today, when you buy $10,000 of $4 stocks and the performance was like Apple... That's half a Million right there

 

[LordRahl]

If you invested in Apple in late 1997 like my uncle you would be rich, shares went from
$4 when he bought to $229 today, when you buy $10,000 of $4 stocks and the performance was like Apple... That's half a Million right there

Was your uncle Forrest Gump?

 

[civ_king]

Was your uncle Forrest Gump?

who?

my uncle is an economist, he was damn sure it was going to rise

 

[EmpireOfCats]

with luck, Apple will lower the prices on the Macs to increase the major pain on the other computer makers,

Unfortunately, that's not how they do things. The prices are more or less constant, and instead, they add features like the SD card reader or Firewire 800.

 

[civ_king]

I thought the've been dropping prices recently, US side anyway

 

[EmpireOfCats]

I thought the've been dropping prices recently, US side anyway

Only slightly, I think of the lowest-end MacBook and the MacMini. Nothing serious, though. Apple has about as much interest in a price war as BMW does, and for just about the same reasons.

While we're here, anybody want to speculation about an iPad version of Civ V? The screen should be big enough ...

 

[civ_king]

Only slightly, I think of the lowest-end MacBook and the MacMini. Nothing serious, though. Apple has about as much interest in a price war as BMW does, and for just about the same reasons.

While we're here, anybody want to speculation about an iPad version of Civ V? The screen should be big enough ...

Just make sure to shell out for the Max iPad,

I'm sure it will fail just as hard as those other machines people predicted would flop, like the

Spoiler :

Macintosh: OMG it's too confusing for the average person you have to click on the icons to get stuff done not a command line... yep the concept of GUI fail horribly and the mouse too right?

iMac: WTH? it doesn't have a floppy drive and I can't mod the heck out of it... You guys with the newest machines have floppy drives right? and the iMac didn't turn into a smash hit right?

iPhone: LOL! it's just an MP3 player, nothing new, nothing special.... Mega flop right?

iPhone: how can anyone take this seriously, it doesn't even have features common on most phones... It's not like it turned into a status item right?

Would be cool if there was an iPad version, come to think of it an iPad could be awesome for D&D

 

[EmpireOfCats]

Would be cool if there was an iPad version, come to think of it an iPad could be awesome for D&D

Well, here's our next statistic on Apple sales for the day:

http://www.tuaw.com/2010/03/24/apple-gains-19-share-of-portable-gaming-market-5-of-everythin/

According to the latest numbers, the iPhone OS has nabbed 15% of the mobile game market away from bigger handhelds like the Nintendo DS and the PSP, and the iPhone itself has actually claimed 5% of the worldwide video game market.

The link has one of those pie charts thingies that shows the change. Now, the iPhone development tools are close to those for the Mac, and I'm assuming (but don't know) that the tools will be similar for the iPad. Not sure the hardware is powerful enough for Civ, though.

We'll see. Me, I'm going to wait for a few months to see what happens. As much as I like Apple, being one of the "first adopters" usually isn't a good idea.

 

[civ_king]

Well, here's our next statistic on Apple sales for the day:

http://www.tuaw.com/2010/03/24/apple-gains-19-share-of-portable-gaming-market-5-of-everythin/

According to the latest numbers, the iPhone OS has nabbed 15% of the mobile game market away from bigger handhelds like the Nintendo DS and the PSP, and the iPhone itself has actually claimed 5% of the worldwide video game market.

The link has one of those pie charts thingies that shows the change. Now, the iPhone development tools are close to those for the Mac, and I'm assuming (but don't know) that the tools will be similar for the iPad. Not sure the hardware is powerful enough for Civ, though.

We'll see. Me, I'm going to wait for a few months to see what happens. As much as I like Apple, being one of the "first adopters" usually isn't a good idea.

maybe Apple will make it possible for a modified OSX to run on it

 

[Danchops]

While we're here, anybody want to speculation about an iPad version of Civ V? The screen should be big enough ...

I would love a full-on version of Civ for the iPad. That would probably be enough to get me to buy one right there.

Anyone have any idea how CivRev did on the iPhone/iPod Touch?

Would be cool if there was an iPad version, come to think of it an iPad could be awesome for D&D

Now that would definitely be enough to get me to buy an iPad.

 

[civ_king]

I would love a full-on version of Civ for the iPad. That would probably be enough to get me to buy one right there.

Anyone have any idea how CivRev did on the iPhone/iPod Touch?



Now that would definitely be enough to get me to buy an iPad.

CivRev was pretty much the same game as console except with DS-style graphic

 

[Danchops]

CivRev was pretty much the same game as console except with DS-style graphic

Apologies - I wasn't clear. I have CivRev on my iPod and am aware of the game play and quality of graphics. What I'm curious about is the game's success on the platform. Does anyone have any sense on whether Firaxis made a bunch of money off of it? Were sales high enough to make up for the reduced price necessary for selling in the App Store? Obviously, none of us know the exact answers to those questions, but I thought someone might have some insight.

 

[the Falcon]

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[civ_king]

I was thinking the same damn thing the other day. That, and an iPad version of Civ that could be used as digital board game for playing around the table with friends!

now I have to decide If I want to save to buy a MacBook Pro or an iPad curse you!

 

[brycekworth]

I wonder how long after the pc version the mac one will come

 

[EmpireOfCats]

Apple has updated the MacBook Pro line, finally:

http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/

And not a moment too soon, becuase my white MacBook is falling apart. So we know that Firaxis should be aiming to have the OS X version of the game run on i5-520M CPUs (dual core with hyperthreading, so four logical cores) with 4 gb of RAM and a Nvidia GeForce GT 330M with 256 mb of video RAM, because those will be my specs.

Oh, and feel free to annouce the Mac version any time now, guys. Don't be shy, all the other kids are already doing it.

 

[Duuk]

I demand a Colecovision version of Civ5.