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No you have to go through a "publisher" of some sort who has an agreement with Apple. Previously sites like CD Baby or Reverbnation offered this service to musicians but they charge annual fees to keep your stuff up on the store. When Distrokid launched he said on Reddit that there was no need for people to pay these annual fees and he wanted to create a cheaper option.

He's channeling David Brent.

You're right - seems it was just Dragon Age 2 that they pulled. My bad! I thought I was only seeing them because I already owned them.

They actually pulled most of their top titles off Steam when Origin launched. Mass effect, Dragon Age etc. If you already own them on Steam then they remain in your library but you can't buy them on there anymore.

I thought we were supposed to be outraged at having DRM forced upon us because developers don't trust us. Now we have to be concerned that "less than five percent of apps were secured against cracking"?

They're claiming it's not the same thing. http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5978861022?page=23 Seems like they're confident that the people involved were cheating.

Also, other WINE users are posting saying they've had no issues.

The story's being spread around now, so I guess we'll see one way or another because other users with the issue will either show up, or they won't.

Me? I get 5GB of data on my plan which costs $89 AU a month. That includes unlimited phone calls, SMS, voicemail etc The only thing with a cap of any kind on it is the data, and I never use even close to 5GB, even with my iPad and MacBook tethering occasionally.

I was going to ask what the point of this was, because I can just do it already on my iPhone. But from the comments I guess they charge you extra for it in the US? That sucks.

I don't think Google expected to just magically kill Facebook.

Most (95%) of my friends don't use G+, they use Facebook. Whenever I mention Google+ they just say "ugh not another social network. I spend too much time on Facebook as it is". The majority of people in my circles are other tech industry people, because we find this kind of stuff interesting, but the average person needs a pretty compelling reason abandon Facebook. And I say abandon because they don't want to use both. I'm currently using both for different things because I want to be "part of it", but the average person on the street isn't interested. There's nothing on Google+ at the moment that's very compelling for normal people who are perfectly happy with Facebook, and "pages" aren't the answer.

But Google probably knows all that.

I seriously doubt there's ever going to be something that instantly causes everyone to abandon Facebook. But if Google can slowly build G+ into a better option by trying things and listening to feedback, then it's possible. I remember everyone saying they'd never abandon Myspace for Facebook.

So I'm gonna go with not dead.

Without even thinking I checked Twitter during the 30 second countdown.

Most people who'd be willing to accept random friend requests on Facebook probably have no idea that this even happened.