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WWDC Attendees Wowed by App Store Display Array

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 10th Jun 2009 12:20 UTC

Despite the beating Apple often receives for its controlling behaviour of the App Store and its Mac OS X EULA, the company really does know how to market itself and its products. At the WWDC in San Francisco, currently under way, the company found a very illustrative way of showing the sheer size and success of the App Store.

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RE[3]: Some random thoughts - loosely related to this s

by mallard on Wed 10th Jun 2009 20:07 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Some random thoughts - loosely related to this s"

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2006-01-06

because it would require 10 16-lane PCI Express slots

No, only 5, there are several 4-port graphics cards on the market, e.g. the NVidia Quadro NVS range.

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RE[4]: Some random thoughts - loosely related to this s

by tyrione on Wed 10th Jun 2009 21:04 in reply to "RE[3]: Some random thoughts - loosely related to this s"

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2005-11-21

Yes, that's a cost effective means. Apple takes 20 systems to WWDC and 20 monitors.

Instead, they should take 5 systems and buy those cards that I guarantee you aren't laying around.

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RE[5]: Some random thoughts - loosely related to this s

by Laurence on Thu 11th Jun 2009 08:39 in reply to "RE[4]: Some random thoughts - loosely related to this s"

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2007-03-26

Yes, that's a cost effective means. Apple takes 20 systems to WWDC and 20 monitors. Instead, they should take 5 systems and buy those cards that I guarantee you aren't laying around.

+1 (This was my thought too)

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