PC physical copies hasn’t totally died. You can still buy boxed editions and collectors editions for certain games.

And digital copies for consoles is quite popular too now. In fact, for many less popular games, not physical version is available.

so, not sure your observations universal.

regardless though, I’d guess it’s because the console market has to contend with the fact that many console owners won’t have internet on their consoles.

this was an excellent article. I’m old enough to remember being impacted by these events.

I’m not in Munich, but I remember trying to embrace OpenOffice, and telling my wife how pissed off I was that Microsoft wasn’t following it’s own open source document standard.

I remember Google killing XMPP, and there’s also the more recent examples of what Facebook has done to WhatApp, Instagram, and the other potential competitors that got buried.

oof, this comic hurts so bad it’s funny.