Twitter previews Ticketed Spaces

Re:Twitter previews Ticketed Spaces by prestigious on Friday May 21, 2021 @04:49PM (#27239783)

Imagine in 1998 trying to get distribution for your literal box of disks in dozens of stores and thinking it costs you less than 30% of retail

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Re:Twitter previews Ticketed Spaces by fshbbdssbbgdd on Friday May 21, 2021 @05:15PM (#27240062)

In this hypothetical universe, Microsoft runs the only store, decides what you are allowed to sell, and blocks you from selling independently.

In reality you could sell your software by direct mail if you thought it was a better cost structure than a store, or if a store didn’t want to carry your product.

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Re:Twitter previews Ticketed Spaces by gary_0 on Saturday May 22, 2021 @12:25AM (#27243452)

> In reality you could sell your software by direct mail

IIRC, that's exactly how some famous companies/developers (Apogee, for one) started out. They uploaded the demo to BBSes and then had interested users buy the full product by mail.

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Re:Twitter previews Ticketed Spaces by yjftsjthsd-h on Friday May 21, 2021 @04:59PM (#27239895)

At least there were dozens of stores to be in.

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Re:Twitter previews Ticketed Spaces by rsj_hn on Friday May 21, 2021 @07:09PM (#27241073)

I'm a bit confused, is this an argument against competition or against monopoly?

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