I'd love for GW to put out some army builder programs that were as easy to use as AB.
I'd love for GW to put out some army builder programs that were as easy to use as AB.
I am old enough to remember when White Dwarf reviewed books and RPGs.
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GW updating the codex's is the little push I needed to convert to digital armybooks. As soon as Orcs & Goblins and Tomb Kings appear i'll snap them up.
GW did have an armybuilder program a few years ago (two in fact, one for Imperium forces and one for the rest). Unfortunately it was expensive, subpar and eventually got discontinued. Much to the pleasure of the costumers who paid something aruond 30€ for a product they expected to be continously maintained.
That said it would be nice if they integrated an armybuilder into their digital publication.
Unfortunately GW still doesnt seem to be able to care for their costumers; Switzerland the country with the highest iPad/iPhone density still has no access to GW digital products! Disappointing.
Originally Posted by Avian
I might want to point out that this decision is not the best. The I-phone-android-windows smart phone formats are still struggling for dominance. I have experinced what it means to buy into a format that looses out in the end. Anyone remeber Next, BetaMax, PCjr, Micrographix Designer and many others all these were hailed as great formats/systems. And dont poo poo a pdf format, back in the day as a tech writer using framemaker and acrobate I would regularly design linked documents for an international AC mfg (York), And the added benefit of it is it worked across all platforms instead of telling our clients they had to buy and apple/Unix/Windows pc. This is can be another failure on GW's part. Also the cost of these documents is outrageous. They are taking codexs that they have already written, adding a little more to it on some Desktop publishing program and then selling it at close to the same price as a dead tree codex. They should of looked at one of the most successful e-publishers out there Baen Books. They offer there e-books in a wide range of formats (it does not take that long to run a file through the e-pub software to get what you want). So they have a choice put less in the dead tree codexs and more in the e-pub codexs or the same info or some in one and not in the other forcing people to buy both and you know where that will lead. Also by choosing apple, my experience with apple products if something unexpected and bad happens and you loose that device you loose all your files.. yes I am looking at you I-tunes. GW could of done this in such a way as to make it accessable across all formats not just one.
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iTunes is the worst program in the world, but when it comes to phones Apple has actually been ahead when it comes to backups. For any device now though, it's all pretty easy; just put your files online and you can access them with your account, not your specific device.
???Huh? With Itunes all your music and stuff is just sitting there on your hard drive.
With Apps and stuff you would have to re-download them, but that is free.
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He means if your HDD crashes, the music is lost. This is true, but no different than songs stored in Windows Media Player or some other program. In fact, as carlismo points out, Apple hosts a pretty decent off-site backup solution.
If your HDD breaks down, you just redownload the music.
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Apple only lets you do that in very rare circumstances, and then only after giving you a nice long lecture on the benefits of proper backup procedure. I've had friends buy hundreds of dollars of product through iTunes, only to lose it due to a system crash and never get it back.
...unless your point was in line with what I was saying about using the Apple remote solution for backups, in which case, yes, you'd just re-download the music.
Last edited by Lord Dan; 17-07-2012 at 23:52.
I really don't understand the issue. If your hard drive crashes and you haven't made a back up your screwed no matter where you originally got the files, so what does that have to do with apple?
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Since iTunes 10 you can redownload any previous purchases, including books, apps and music.
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We're getting off topic here guys. If There's nothing more to add to the original topic I'll have to close the thread.
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