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Your comment is the perfect example of how there's an "invisible" demand demand for gaming on Linux. Nobody can see it, because those who want it will mostly
by jenscow 8y ago
Your comment is the perfect example of how there's an "invisible" demand demand for gaming on Linux.
Nobody can see it, because those who want it will mostly make do with Windows.
- TeMPOraL 8y ago+1. Personally, I spend 98% of my time in Linux, but I dual-boot just for the sake of the few games I like that need Windows to run. If not for that, I'd have dropped Windows years ago.
- basilgohar 8y agoI haven't logged my hours, but substitute 98% above with whatever my number is (90+%). I don't even have Windows installed on my main, but older, desktop. I just have it on my newer laptop, which is where I do any gaming of significance (when I have time nowadays).
- p0nce 8y agoInvisible demand is undistinguishable from no demand, as far as B2C is concerned.
- kurtisc 8y agoI agree that they can't distinguish it but there was no visible demand for an iPhone before the iPhone.
- pjmlp 8y agoOnly if we forget about the work done by Symbian, Psion, Microsoft, Compaq, Dell in portable Touch devices.
- kurtisc 8y agoHow did the demand work out for Symbian, Psion, and Microsoft phones?
- pjmlp 8y agoPretty well in Europe and Asia, until a certain company in Mountain View decided to screw Sun and offer a mobile OS for free to OEMs., in exchange for user data.
- ThrowawayR2 8y agoPeople forget that Windows Mobile 5 and 6 unseated Palm to become the sales leader in smartphones in the mid-2000s, shortly before the iPhone came along and blew them and everybody else out of the water.
- johnchristopher 8y agoNot true. Invisible demand is a potential market and a bunch of prospects in waiting. However that niche is way too small to be worth it.
- p0nce 8y agoFor all the prophets out there: no one stops you to build a business for that "invisible demand". Let's see how you can predict the market.
- johnchristopher 8y agoThis happens all the time. Some endeavours fail, other succeed. Some are more likely to succeed or fail than other and some succeed or fail unexpectedly. Nothing to do with prophecies though. Not every demand can be fulfilled, no matter what.