Tadhg Kelly

"Yeah, I have many issues with it too. Why I don't Like Metro: http://whatgamesare.com/2012/0..." - Tadhg Kelly

"On any Facebook game typically 90-95% are free players, 5-10% are paying players (who might put $10 or so into a game once a month), but the whales pay way more. Only a very small number actually pay 10k into the games though. Zynga revenue statements for the IPO bear this out, more or less, with about $800m revenue on 150m users (I think). If the 5%/10k figure quoted above were true, not only would they be significantly undervalued as a company, there would be social/national outcries. 5 million people spending $120,000 a year on a game would be the sort of thing that registers politically." - Tadhg Kelly

"Well that's just stupid." - Tadhg Kelly

"Spot on." - Tadhg Kelly

"Both. There's a slight chicken-and-egg aspect to it. The store is excellent, which draws customers but customers are willing to pay because the store is excellent. :)" - Tadhg Kelly

"I don't mind the critical tone, as the subject is of the post is what I don't like. My experience with using it on Xbox is not the same as yours though. I find the joypad interaction to be much faster than just about everything except full-on text entry. Indeed I often use the silver-button menu to just shortcut to where I want to go rather than Metro proper, which can't be right.  Thanks for the comments!" - Tadhg Kelly

"Potentially, but what it really comes down to for developers is revenue. Its why iOS is still the number 1 platform for apps, for example, even though Android has a much larger install base." - Tadhg Kelly

"What I've used of Expose on the Mac was generally a bit faster, although it had an arcane action of pushing to the screen corners, which can be incredibly annoying sometimes (leads to a lot of accidental activations)." - Tadhg Kelly

"Was that meant for byronm by any chance?" - Tadhg Kelly

"Yeah I don't really buy that paradigm-shift idea so much. I love my Phone, for example, but its interface is essentially a simplified desktop (which as a result works).  On the personal prefs thing, totally agreed." - Tadhg Kelly

"Actually when I said "xbox bing call of duty" to test, it showed me Grey's Anatomy as a first option. I say first, what it actually did first was nothing, then showed me Bing with no content, then nothing. Then Grey's. I do have a bit of a cold today, but still." - Tadhg Kelly

"It's an open question. I think you're safe for the moment, but perhaps creating an AIR-installable version would be a smart backup plan." - Tadhg Kelly

"Facebook Actions... No. This is a bad idea, effectively doing a 'Google Buzz' number. Great for the 5% who love to publish, but bad for the 95% who don't particularly like the feed spam." - Tadhg Kelly

"Well they support ePub 3, so isn't that the same thing? Hard to know without playing with the software." - Tadhg Kelly

"So according to Twitter, the new software allow authors to publish directly to the iBookstore. Seems like a salient detail to have missed in the liveblog, no?" - Tadhg Kelly