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Apple Serious about Games?
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Those paying attention to what was being said when the iPhone was announced would of course remember that SJ was looking at market sizes - including that of game consoles. It was tiny - and was dismissed by the man as a market not worthy of Apple's time... Unlike phones.
Those not paying attention errr... will have missed that
Aside from a few iPod/iPhone games I just don't see it being a market that Apple wants (or needs) to get into.
Those not paying attention errr... will have missed that
Aside from a few iPod/iPhone games I just don't see it being a market that Apple wants (or needs) to get into.
Apple's hiring...
I found this job on Apple site:
http://jobs.apple.com/index.ajs?BID=1&method=mExternal.showJob&RID=124&CurrentPage=1
Towards the bottom it says:
>* Experience in design of input device electronics: mobile phone,
>game players, keyboards & mice.
^^^^^^^^^^^
Seems interesting...
I found this job on Apple site:
http://jobs.apple.com/index.ajs?BID=1&method=mExternal.showJob&RID=124&CurrentPage=1
Towards the bottom it says:
>* Experience in design of input device electronics: mobile phone,
>game players, keyboards & mice.
^^^^^^^^^^^
Seems interesting...
Actually, the
Yep, that's what I've been saying all along, games for iPod you can play on iPhone and
TV...No Apple-Nintendo partnership... Why? Nintendo has the run-away Wii?
No expensive computer to compete with Sony Fanboy's PS3...
No XBox 360 type of console to compete with the already entrenched XBox 360 and XBox live...
We so far can hardly get games in Mac OS X...
Maybe we'll really see ATi come out with a new hotrod card - first on the Mac, then on PC... imagine an AppleTV with a 1GB Crossfire card and an extra slot to add another. Add 600 bucks to the price and Game On.
yeah, like Halo. Badwords
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yeah, like Halo. Badwords
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Apple is serious about gaming, and this will become
more apparent when the Mac product line is updated.
Actually, a Gaming Mac is expected to be introduced
as early as summer '07. The timing is good,
considering the breakthroughs regarding flash/cache
and enhanced multithreading capabilities to be seen
in Leopard.
Apple is serious about gaming, and this will become
more apparent when the Mac product line is updated.
Actually, a Gaming Mac is expected to be introduced
as early as summer '07. The timing is good,
considering the breakthroughs regarding flash/cache
and enhanced multithreading capabilities to be seen
in Leopard.
Halo=bungie=apple
Apple was going to be the publisher of Halo, but microsoft (rinsing tounge with soap) found some loophole in the contract, and bought out bungie through the game "Marathon". Apple could have been the real gaming computer all along, but microsoft (again, getting soap poisoning) screwed with the law, and now Apple seems doomed, but maybe not, if they advocate some of the already developed mac FPS's.
Apple was going to be the publisher of Halo, but microsoft (rinsing tounge with soap) found some loophole in the contract, and bought out bungie through the game "Marathon". Apple could have been the real gaming computer all along, but microsoft (again, getting soap poisoning) screwed with the law, and now Apple seems doomed, but maybe not, if they advocate some of the already developed mac FPS's.
Those paying attention to what was being said when the iPhone was announced would of course remember that SJ was looking at market sizes - including that of game consoles. It was tiny - and was dismissed by the man as a market not worthy of Apple's time... Unlike phones.
Those not paying attention errr... will have missed that
He only showed numbers of units sold, which is quite a simplistic measurement. It doesn't take into account the margins you can make on a product.
For example, far more takeaway food is sold than computers, so maybe the computer market is not worthy of Apple's time.
You will hear it time and time again, but you can literately get statistics to prove anything you wish.