For getting a gameplatform a medium is needed to distribute games. Now i seems that sandisk introduces WORM (write once read many) sd cards. Quite suiteable as an distribution medium for games. (article)

...like floppy disks were once for the demo scene. :)

Do you think we can bring the home developer back into the 'game'?

R&B :-)

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No, it's even funnier: Cartridges! If SanDisk wants to have any success with this (not that they care a bit about it, with a HUGE market going for regular solid state storage), better they provide a write only medium which CAN'T be copied. That would be something sound. Of course, that's impossible.
Whether you succeed in this or not, you score very high just by the mere fact of mentioning "home developer", "bedroom coder", "programmer kid", etc.
It once was a culture, a breed from which many of us have come from. Now, kids belive that computers are a new form of television, being its main use loosing time consuming content, instead of making it.
Well, that's a legitimate business, I guess. And quite a big market: Addiction to computer media is the biggest entertainment business these days.
How could you possibly market your new computer in the opposite direction (create instead of consume)? Is there a mass of "home developers" that can be called customers?

I don't think so anymore. While we are all from the 70's and 80's computer age where the system came with BASIC or a book full of pokes and peeks, where we learned low level programming on the 6502 and Z80 at high school (I did anyway... thank the deity for the BBC Micro and ZX Spectrum), this doesn't happen anymore.

If you try and resurrect the bedroom coder and score high points, all you do is find the 25-40 market you probably already had to start with.

Kids these days don't code.. because they don't need to.

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Losers.

Sorry, couldn't resist. Back to listening to some nerd music from a nerd movie...