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Valve's reported profit-per-head from Steam commissions is out there, and at $3.5 million per employee it makes Apple and Facebook look like a lemonade stand (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They could (and probably have) tried to get to where apple is with its app store on macos/ios.

They did.

The Windows 10/11 "S Mode" only allows installing software through the Windows store. It was mostly relegated to OEM installs for cheap x86 and ARM laptops, thankfully.

[–] GreenCrunch@lemmy.today 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ew. I hate that. I see they offer an option in settings to permanently switch out of S mode, but that seems like it's a crappy excuse. I'm guessing most users are never going to go there, and will stay in S mode, using only Microsoft's awful products. That's their intention, at least.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Seems like Cromebook mode to me. There's a niche of super light interchangeable tablets or notebooks I could see that working on, but nothing MS makes is light except the theme.