'iTunes Preview' Listings Suggest Apple is Already Approving iPad Applications

[FFArchitect]

Going to be interesting to see the iPad standing next to Nintendo and Sony in the gaming dept.

 

[sam10685]

This is a funny forum site.

 

[bzz]

iPad games leak out

Whoops -- somebody at Apple accidentally jumped the gun on sending a few iPad titles to the App Store. A few HD titles have snuck into iTunes' web interface a little early, and while we already knew that some of them were on the way to the iPad (Flight Control HD has already been announced, and NBA Hotshot HD was rumored), there are a few interesting new names in this list:

Ammoin HD
Azkend HD
Flight Control HD
Grind HD
Labyrinth 2 HD
NBA Hotshot HD
Numba HD
Plants vs. Zombies HD
Sparkle HD
Worms HD

Plants vs. Zombies HD? Worms HD? Yes please. Looks like Apple is already working their way through the iPad application process, and a few apps are already approved and ready for launch on April 3rd. If this list is any indication, there will be no shortage of games to play on your new iPad.

http://www.tuaw.com/2010/03/25/ipad-games-leak-out-include-plants-vs-zombies-hd-and-worms-hd/

 

[GoCubsGo]

Yeah right, Leak! I kid I kid.
P v Z is a game I must get.

 

[Mactagonist]

what was the pricing?

 

[dwd3885]

They're Not Even Hd

 

[ScottishDuck]

Great. So now were going to further add to consumer confusion about HD by putting out sub-HD products labeled as HD.

Good going Apple.

 

[Truffy]

Or conversely that you don't get discouraged when this comment is remembered in April.

Given the iPad's not going to be launched until 3 April, I'm prepared to be surprised!

 

[amnost]

Flight Control HD is listed too

After searching through I noticed that Flight control HD was also listed

 

[Minimoose 360]

Great. So now were going to further add to consumer confusion about HD by putting out sub-HD products labeled as HD.

Good going Apple.

It's close enough to HD so that a consumer wouldn't know the difference.

 

[DanielSw]

I almost wonder if making the iPad run iPhone applications was a mistake on Apple's part, as it takes away the urgency of having iPad native applications available for the launch date.

No it doesn't.

Both customers and developers realize full well the benefits of more screen real estate. In fact the larger screen may very will inspire developers to create apps exclusively for the iPad which they would otherwise not even entertain creating for the smaller format.

Even given the relative ease of re-writing an existing app to take advantage of the larger screen, a majority of existing apps may simply not look right occupying a larger screen. So developers are naturally going to want to re-think the design of such apps for the iPad.

 

[matticus008]

The article is about them finding the same apps with different names. In other words, 2 different versions.

What possible reason would they need 2 different names for except to list them as seperate items?

Because they're two separate products and not necessarily identical games?

It would only make sense to list products under the same title if the only difference were in the resolution of the content. But as the keynote demo games indicate, there are going to be significant other deviations in most titles.

They may overlap only as much as "Lite" and the full paid versions do, which are already listed in the store separately. Developers are positioning the iPad versions as "premium" and expanded editions of cheaper and simpler iPhone games, just as the free lite/demo versions are positioned beneath the paid iPhone/iPod versions. It doesn't really make that much sense to lump them all together, which would complicate the reviews and make it more difficult to jump directly to the item you want to purchase when using the store directly from the iPad.

 

[ScottishDuck]

It's close enough to HD so that a consumer wouldn't know the difference.

That's not the point. It's damaging for the industry and the consumer.

 

[vini-vidi-vici]

OMG! there are going to be GAMES for the iPad?!?!? This changes everything!

 

[DaveGee]

It's close enough to HD so that a consumer wouldn't know the difference.

Try explaining as get you get hauled ass first kicking and screaming into court by some smarmy lawyer looking to make his chops by doing a billion dollar class action lawsuit against Apple for product misrepresentation.

The crap happens to Apple far too often.... My mind wanders all the way back to the case where someone was actually making a case over the words 'millions of colors' that Apple used in the product marketing sheets (something like that...) and anyway unless I'm mistaken the guy won!!

Edit: Now this is odd but the ONLY reverence I can find is to a case that was filed back in 2008... However I distinctly remember a similar (exact?) same case being filed long before OS X made its appearance. Perhaps even before Jobs took over --- errrr I mean when NeXT was bought out... I ALWAYS make that mistake.. :lol:

You'd think they would know better by now.

 

[baryon]

Apple should really make separate categories for iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad apps. Many of them are not compatible with many devices, and it's a pain to have to read through the description to figure out whether it will work with your device after you've paid for the app.

For example, many apps rely on a constant internet connection to determine your location and download information about nearby places of interest. Such apps mostly only work on the iPhone, and rarely on the iPod Touch, since the iPod Touch only has WiFi. You think it sounds cool that it can tell you your location, you download it and buy it, then you realise that it doesn't work at all since your iPod Touch never has an internet connection.

I don't know how Apple is going to do this, but I hope iPad apps will have their own category, and "hybrid" apps (containing two versions for both devices) will appear in both categories (for iPhone and for iPad simultaneously). I mean the apps are going to be so different from each other that it's not just a matter of changing the resolution and the size of buttons, but for example, on the iPad, you'll have apps that will not run on the iPhone at all. It will get very messy when you'll have a page for an app with a series of screenshots saying "this is how it looks like on the iPhone" and "this is how it looks like on the iPad". Then the description of an app is going to say something like "This app allows you to edit text (you can only format your text on the iPad, plain text only on the iPhone and iPod Touch) and insert images into your text (only on iPad) and take pictures directly with your camera (only on iPhone), and insert your current location (only 3G iPad and iPhone 3G and 3GS)".

 

[MisterK]

Please Please Please

So here are the ones I'm waiting for:

- Civilization, Warcraft 1/2/3, Age Of Empires
- Leisure Suite Larry, Police Quest, King's Quest, The Dig, Full Throttle
- Peggle, Zuma
- Farmville (not for me, but the millions of people playing it on Facebook)
- If someone just made a bluetooth SNES styled controller, I would freak out and buy just about any game available from the old days (Whomp 'Em, Bayou Billy, Cool Spot, The Lion King, Super Street Fighter, MegaMan Series, Faxanadu, River City Ransom, Double Dragon).
- A nice large Solitaire
- Crosswords, TextTwist, Bookworm
- That VHS game Nightmare (an interactive board game, where a guy yells at you from your TV... it was good. Trust me.)

I love casual games and older 2D games. I just find that I can't pick up and play a 3D game for 5 minutes and make any substantial headway (I also always get disoriented). I think the iPad would be the ultimate gaming machine because I don't want to monopolize the TV.

Oh.. one more thing. Apple should develop a standard social underpinning (like Facebook and XBOX Live) so there is a central database of users and an SDK so the games can have a social widget. Competing with friends is one of the great successes of Facebook games (there are more people playing Farmville than people who have Twitter accounts).

 

[iRACK]

This is god news in my opinion.

Nice to see that some devs are courages enough to publish without testing usability on the "real thing" ... I am certain that this courage will literally pay off.

Just imagine all of them round about 400k early adopters. They want to try this stuff. Want to get a feel for the new toy. Test some software and of course games.

Than these few titles will be in the top 10 ranks for some amount of time, since they had such a head start. That will result in even more sales when devices role out worldwide (i know its only like 5 countries but luckily for me including Germany).

This does sound like a good deal for the early publishers..... as long as their App works.

For me having to wait until the end of April is freaking HARD but also kind of good since there have been half a million beta testers for me until the time comes for my purchase. Good for my exams in Uni right now, too ;-)

It is just these post show the imminent start; launch day is close... i cant wait... purchase iPad over eBay.... R.E.S.I.S.T... Will wait but eager to here all them reviews by real customers.

 

[MikhailT]

That's not the point. It's damaging for the industry and the consumer.

It'll be sorted out later, Apple has no system right now in place for differentiating between iPhone/iPad. The developers are left to their own to do this and they are naming it HD. Apple didn't tell them to do that. The developers could've easily just say "For iPad" or something.

 

[kurosov]

Try explaining as get you get hauled ass first kicking and screaming into court by some smarmy lawyer looking to make his chops by doing a billion dollar class action lawsuit against Apple for product misrepresentation.

The crap happens to Apple far too often.... My mind wanders all the way back to the case where someone was actually making a case over the words 'millions of colors' that Apple used in the product marketing sheets (something like that...) and anyway unless I'm mistaken the guy won!!

Edit: Now this is odd but the ONLY reverence I can find is to a case that was filed back in 2008... However I distinctly remember a similar (exact?) same case being filed long before OS X made its appearance. Perhaps even before Jobs took over --- errrr I mean when NeXT was bought out... I ALWAYS make that mistake.. :lol:

You'd think they would know better by now.

Well "HD" does not mean "720p" or "1080p". There are many products labelled as "HD" that are not.

As the ipad and iphone use the same OS any application that uses a higher resolution interface than the standard is infact "HD"

 

[mcmlxix]

I think Apple should have established a standard nomenclature to distinguish which apps are intended for which device. The iPod/iPad naming is already similar enough.

 

[iigsie]

That's not the point. It's damaging for the industry and the consumer.

Absolute nonsense. If it's a HIGHER def app, HD is most appropriate.

No damage to 'the industry' or the consumer.

 

[ScottishDuck]

Absolute nonsense. If it's a HIGHER def app, HD is most appropriate.

No damage to 'the industry' or the consumer.

HD is a standard, not a phrase.

 

[iRACK]

HD is a standard, not a phrase.

Said who.

 

[fox10078]

HD is a standard, not a phrase.

Well the iPad is HD, From wikipedia.

720p is the shorthand name for a category of HDTV video modes. The number 720 stands for the 720 horizontal scan lines of display resolution (also known as 720 pixels of vertical resolution), while the letter p stands for progressive scan or non-interlaced. When broadcast at 60[1] frames per second, 720p features the highest temporal (motion) resolution possible under the ATSC and DVB standards. Progressive scanning reduces the need to prevent flicker by filtering out fine details, so sharpness is much closer to 1080i than the number of scan lines would suggest

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/720p

Being 1024×768, it qualifies as HD since the vertical resolution is greater than 720.

1280×720 is for a 16:9 aspect, for 4:3 its 960×720, which the ipad is greater than so its HD, just in a 4:3 Aspect ratio.