I have had an iPod touch 2nd gen for about 2 years. It has one good function: a mail checker. The mail.app works very well and is faster than getting on my computer. 99% of the time spent on my ipod is email checking. And the default sig is idiotic. "Sent from my iPod". Why would anyone want to know that I sent it from my iPod? Every single free app in the store is "Lite". I am not going to download some crappy demo, so these apps are worthless to me. However, I also refuse to pay for non-physical products. Making the app store a waste of an icon space. I have one app on there that I enjoy: Roller Coaster Physics (which was banned a while back). It is awesome to ride elevators and have it tell me the Gs. I have pirated a few games for it. They are all mediocre. I have to hold the ipod close in order to use the touch screen. So, more than 5 mins of "gaming" makes my neck hurt.
. What? Thats simply not true. There are many quality free products available. Anyway, the iPhone is NOT a replacement for anything but an all in one handy bit of kit. For example the iPod player (and a real iPod) have shit audio playback compared to other MP3 players. The net feature isn't as good as a lap top or net book. The keyboard is fucking annoying. There are stupid Apple blocks where there shouldn't be if you don't jailbreak the phone. The iPhone is far from perfect but I find it a great bit of kit. As for other apple products, well ...... They're all a load of crap IMO. Apple TV, no thanks. Mac airbook? Yeah right. What a waste of money. I could buy a PC gaming rig and a very good PC laptop for the same price.
Too many quotes, I'll answer by name Disjaukifa: Macs used to be great, just like BMWs used to be "hoon" cars but now are bland luxury barges, according to most enthusiasts. Now every douchebag gets a plain vanilla 3series just to pretend he's loaded, and I see the same with macs. It used to be that macs tried to be ahead of PCs in both power and design, now its just the former and only slightly since its been like 10 years since apple showed some of the most impressive industrial design ever (like the G4 Cube and the 'flower' iMac). Thats because a big percentage of buyers only care for the brand. APE: agreed, and so do a big chunk of consumers since android is taking a big piece of the market for itself, and much faster than the iphone did. paul.strickler1: you can thank all those idiots in the media hyping the "possibilities" of the app economy. Now according to a study only 1 of 10 devs there will be mildly successful, while the rest wont even break even. Taucias: jobs hates gaming since the atari days, or at least thats what everyone says. Obviously he changed his mind after seeing how most jar apps were games and how people would ratter buy those than regular apps. Yakumo: indeed, but read my post its the mactards I been talking about the ones that say they'll rather play with their iphones rather than a PS3 or a PC.
Those people are simply idiots. I wouldn't even take a real hand held console over a home system. Then again I've never been a big hand held gamer. Gaming for me is a passtime to relax or enjoy while relaxing. Some listen to music, some watch TV or a movie, some surf the net and some game. I'm always trying to tell my wife that there is no difference between me gaming a few hours each night and her watching TV for a few hours every night. Of course she's having none of it. Yakumo
I've been using touch screen based devices since the Handspring Visor was out running Palm OS3 then moved onto a Palm m130 and then to a Treo 680. Touch screens on a small portable device are NOT gaming potential. Not alone at least. The Nintendo DS gets away with some games being almost 100% touch screen based such as Kirby's Canvas Curse but most games that rely on the touch screen do it poorly or aren't games that were even conceptualized for my demographic (such as children or old people). Yes it was fun to play Joust before class in High School. Sure Sega Swirl was nifty to have too. And I'll admit the Sim City port was pretty badass. But when it comes down to it most games are built and will continue to be built around being able to press buttons. The iPhone and just about every Android based phone are piss poor gaming platforms on their own if not just for the ability for games to eat battery but for the fact that there are no damned buttons on the thing placed well enough to play games with. The rumored Sony phone might just do it but I get the feeling it'll either be bulky or feel flimsy. After having repaired a few phones that slide open I (one several times) don't think I want a phone that has a ribbon that can be broken.
Guys, Epic's Infinity Blade was released today. Not only does it look better than any PS2 game (meaning better than PSP) but plays very well with it's touch controls since it was designed from the ground up for ios devices. If you own an ios device I recommend this game :nod: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56XseC2DBB4
Graphics are great (like that demo from a while ago) but the thing is gameplay isnt that different from a Quick time event in that you're moving your finger around just like you would smash a button. Anyways, I wouldnt play that in anything smaller than an ipad, and my hands arent that big really
I got that one as well, and I only see it as a cell phone, web browser and media player. I would see it as a gaming plataform if it had good games, tough. Lack of apps and games on the sucky OVI store does not help. Touch screen games can work, I mean, there are quite a few DS games that work using only the touch screen, and hoped to see that on the plataform, but no luck. I think that for some people playing on the iOS plataforms is all they need and might not want to carry a portable console, or are not interested on a dedicated plataform or computer at home to play games. I have no problems with that concept.
Problem is that for some of "that" people anything that apple makes is enough. As I said the problem isnt apple but the attitude in this subset of users that actively undervalue anything that isnt made by their company
