andrewhoyer

No doubt Apple has good reason to do this. I'm not surprised myself, as I've never had any MacBook bigger than 13". I do everything on it including iOS development. Being the only screen I own, I also watch all video on it as well. If I ever want a big screen, I'll pick up a 27" iMac.

You missed the more important "Try Stackato" button right above it. No cost, no barrier to entry for those of us on the developer level. Go check it out.

I am also a software developer and an avid board gamer with a special interest in strategy games. From what I've seen, there is no connection between being a developer and enjoying strategy games. Like you, most of the people we game with are in completely unrelated fields, and amongst developers I know, the number who are really into board games is probably 1 in 50. Whatever the actual number is, I'd bet that a poll of the general public would result in the same numbers.

The key to good gaming is finding the right game, the right group, and the right location. Everyone will play for their own reasons and are unlikely to be the same as others.

Besides the casual game of Chess at lunch though, I wouldn't call it a break -- it's just something we love to do! Possibly another way to look at it is that the skills in logic and planning gained in a software development career translate easily to boardgames where there's a lot of if/then/else situations as well as cases where making decisions where more than one are good come in handy.

The fact that developers add languages to their resumes that they have only touched on is a result of job postings that list incredible numbers of skills which are probably only touched on in the job itself. It took me 10 seconds to find a job posting on Craigslist, titled "Web Applications Programmer". Here are only a few lines from the "Position Requirements"

Fluent with PHP, Python, JavaScript, MySQL, HTML, XML, CSS, web services (SOAP, XML – RPC…) Knowledge of java, ActionScript, Flex and C# is an asset Experienced with AutoCAD, SolidWorks, Inventor, 3D Studio Max, Flash, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Adobe Illustrator

The list goes on to include a bunch of other stuff, plus an array of other non-technical skills.

What do companies expect? Just to get an interview one might need to add something they've only touched on.

You have a great point here. My hope was that by getting more users, word of mouth would play a bigger part because of the more limited market.

As a follow up test, I'm going to bump the price a bit and see what kind of effect it has. It's possible that my interpretation of the price test results wasn't quite right, and I should have been thinking up instead of down.