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Shock News! OK, not really. It’s a bit of a tired cliché to decry that we’re paying too much for our gadgets at retail (even though many of us are buying online anyway), but it looks as though something might actually be happening about it. Albeit only maybe, and only slowly.
Online sales in Australia are nothing new, but figures released by Myer indicate that even the big brand stores are starting to get real traction. Could this the dawning of ubiquitous online aussie retail?
In case you spent the weekend under a rock, Steam’s yearly sale for the US Summer has kicked off! You have until 3am Tuesday morning to pick up Day 4 specials like 50% off Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood (now $US20), Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (now $US45), and ArmA II (now $US20). [Steam]
Nintendo has sent out some pretty impressive sales figures today. Turns out that Australians have a long-term love affair with Nintendo hardware.
Last quarter marked the first time ever that more smartphones were shipped than PCs – and by a wide margin. Manufacturers moved 100.9 million advanced handsets compared with 92.1 million personal computers. Are people buying phones instead of computers? Nope. Because the phones they’re buying are computers. [Register]
So, completely unsurprisingly, AT&T made a ton of money last quarter – $US31.4 billion. Chalk that up in part to the 4.1 million iPhones they activated. But don’t chalk it up to the paltry 442,000 tablets switched on.
