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Morning Xtra: Jobs Is Back (by E-Mail), Game Industry to Hit $90 Billion?

by Chad Mumm on June 23, 2009 at 11:29 AM



Apple's Steve Jobs Now Working Through E-mail
Apple's head honcho Steve Jobs has been on medical leave since January. Fortunately, the Cupertino-based company did not nosedive into the ground without its master's glorious leadership. Still, the news that Jobs is now back working at Apple, albeit via e-mail, is a welcome tonic for Apple fans and devotees. We're hoping it's also good news for that long-rumored Apple tablet; maybe with Jobs back, it will finally see the light of day. [From: USA Today]

Video Game Industry Projected to Hit $90 Billion
Apparently, the video game industry is the 21st-century version of oil. You might be inclined to believe us after checking out the latest report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc., which predicts that the video game software industry (just the games, not consoles and accessories) will reach more than $90 billion in the next six years. For a little comparison, consider this. In 2007, the video game industry took in a little less than $10 billion. [From: Joystiq]

Leave Your BlackBerry for an iPhone?
Would you ditch your BlackBerry smartphone for an Apple iPhone? According to a survey by Crowd Science, four out of ten of you would. We're not so sure, ourselves, and we know a lot of business types that simply cannot make the switch. [From: TG Daily]

Montana City Drops Login Info Requirement
Last week, we reported that the city of Bozeman, Montana was requiring city job applicants to submit their logins and passwords for any social networking sites to which they belong. Thanks to the story making its way around the Web, the city rescinded the requirement and issued this severe understatement through city manager Chris Kukulski: "The extent of our request for a candidate's password, user name, or other Internet information appears to have exceeded that which is acceptable to our community." [From: The Daily Examiner]

Digital Distribution Coming to Gaming Industry, We Say Soon
There's no doubt about it, digital distribution is the future of media. We've already seen downloadable content revolutionize the music industry (Napster and iTunes), the book world (Amazon Kindle), and Hollywood (iTunes again, and Netflix), and it's only a matter of time before it takes over the video game industry as well. Game retailer Gamestop seems to think it's got a few years. Gamestop analyst Arvind Bhatia told Industrygamers that retailers have nothing to fear from digital distribution for at least five years, or so. We seem to remember the music industry thinking that way... right before iTunes launched. [From: Joystiq]

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