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New iPod Game 'iQuiz' Coming

Oh, come on. I'm sure they took all of the leopard and iPhone developers and had them work on iQuiz.

Concurrently, if you don't want to spend the $1.99, that is just too bad for you. You are obligated to buy iQuiz or the Mighty Steve will condemn you.:rolleyes:


Me? I have a feeling it will be more than 'What is this song?' questions, but more likely something along the lines of 'What animal was Domenico Dragonetti, composer of the currently play concerto, infamous for keeping under his stool during recitals?'

Sorry fore the weird classical music reference.
 
Question 1: Why was Leopard's release date pushed back to October?

A. It wasn't. April Fools!

B. iQuiz was so important, they needed to use Leopard engineers.

C. The new top secret feature where an animated Eminem pops up to assist you when you need help is hitting some legal snags.

D. Apple is switching all Macs to Windows and they just want to acclimate Mac users to the way Microsoft does things.

:D
 
Macrumors said:


Electronista notes that some eagle-eyed French iTunes users have spotted the brief appearance of a new iPod game dubbed "iQuiz" on the iTunes Store.

iQuiz_300.jpg




Apple currently includes a more basic quiz game with its iPod and iPod Nanos.
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huhuhuh..ok.
 
Apple Statement
iQuiz has already passed several of its required certification tests and is on schedule to ship in late June as planned. We can’t wait until customers get their hands (and fingers) on it and experience what a revolutionary and magical product it is. However, iQuiz contains the most sophisticated software ever shipped on a mobile device, and finishing it on time has not come without a price — we had to borrow some key software engineering and QA resources from our Mac OS X team, and as a result we will not be able to release Leopard at our Worldwide Developers Conference in early June as planned. While Leopard's features will be complete by then, we cannot deliver the quality release that we and our customers expect from us. We now plan to show our developers a near final version of Leopard at the conference, give them a beta copy to take home so they can do their final testing, and ship Leopard in October. We think it will be well worth the wait. Life often presents tradeoffs, and in this case we're sure we've made the right ones. [Apr 12, 2007]
 
inkswamp said:
Question 1: Why was Leopard's release date pushed back to October?

A. It wasn't. April Fools!

B. iQuiz was so important, they needed to use Leopard engineers.

C. The new top secret feature where an animated Eminem pops up to assist you when you need help is hitting some legal snags.

D. Apple is switching all Macs to Windows and they just want to acclimate Mac users to the way Microsoft does things.

:D
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Haha, very clever. Isn't MR fun?:p
Cult Follower said:
I think games are one of their best ideas for the ipod, it adds so much.
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I agree. An iPod is a nice device to use when one has small free blocks of time.
Konradx said:
Anyone actually buy any of the iPod games? If so more than one?
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Yep. Mini Golf and Vortex. Love 'em!

@Those saying iPod games are insignificant and boring: First off, I doubt you'd want to be playing WoW or CoD2 on a 3.5" LCD on the subway. Or is that just me?
Furthermore, the features of this game seem as though they may incorporate something like core animation. If this is true and an iPod Games SDK is released, I can assure you that a lot of devs will think of this sort of thing as quite significant.
 
swingerofbirch said:
Apple Statement
iQuiz has already passed several of its required certification tests and is on schedule to ship in late June as planned. We can’t wait until customers get their hands (and fingers) on it and experience what a revolutionary and magical product it is. However, iQuiz contains the most sophisticated software ever shipped on a mobile device, and finishing it on time has not come without a price — we had to borrow some key software engineering and QA resources from our Mac OS X team, and as a result we will not be able to release Leopard at our Worldwide Developers Conference in early June as planned. While Leopard's features will be complete by then, we cannot deliver the quality release that we and our customers expect from us. We now plan to show our developers a near final version of Leopard at the conference, give them a beta copy to take home so they can do their final testing, and ship Leopard in October. We think it will be well worth the wait. Life often presents tradeoffs, and in this case we're sure we've made the right ones. [Apr 12, 2007]
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hahah wicked. I wonder if they'll come out with another solitaire game aswell, but with realistic hand moving your cards for you..
 
Konradx said:
Anyone actually buy any of the iPod games? If so more than one?
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Yep got 3 of them. Sudoku, Vortex and Pac-Man. I love Sudoku for plane rides. I have spent a lot of hours playing all three. The are a must for long trips:) Worth every penny if you ask me...
 
swingerofbirch said:
Apple Statement
iQuiz has already passed several of its required certification tests and is on schedule to ship in late June as planned. We can’t wait until customers get their hands (and fingers) on it and experience what a revolutionary and magical product it is. However, iQuiz contains the most sophisticated software ever shipped on a mobile device, and finishing it on time has not come without a price — we had to borrow some key software engineering and QA resources from our Mac OS X team, and as a result we will not be able to release Leopard at our Worldwide Developers Conference in early June as planned. While Leopard's features will be complete by then, we cannot deliver the quality release that we and our customers expect from us. We now plan to show our developers a near final version of Leopard at the conference, give them a beta copy to take home so they can do their final testing, and ship Leopard in October. We think it will be well worth the wait. Life often presents tradeoffs, and in this case we're sure we've made the right ones. [Apr 12, 2007]
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Screw the iPhone I want leopard.
 
Geeze it seems apple's creativity has been mashed up and turned into a pulp. Honestly iQuiz? Its the lamest apple plug ever.

Apple, get a grip and open up your platform...
 
Doubts...

When I look at the image of the french site that first mention that game, I see something strange. In the screen capture it seems like the game is already downloaded in the user games! Like if that game was already bought. The source of the screen capture don't come from the ITS. Is this real..?
http://www.igeneration.fr/dataimg//ZZ3D14DBA7.jpg
 
swingerofbirch said:
Apple Statement
iQuiz has already passed several of its required certification tests and is on schedule to ship in late June as planned. We can’t wait until customers get their hands (and fingers) on it and experience what a revolutionary and magical product it is. However, iQuiz contains the most sophisticated software ever shipped on a mobile device, and finishing it on time has not come without a price — we had to borrow some key software engineering and QA resources from our Mac OS X team, and as a result we will not be able to release Leopard at our Worldwide Developers Conference in early June as planned. While Leopard's features will be complete by then, we cannot deliver the quality release that we and our customers expect from us. We now plan to show our developers a near final version of Leopard at the conference, give them a beta copy to take home so they can do their final testing, and ship Leopard in October. We think it will be well worth the wait. Life often presents tradeoffs, and in this case we're sure we've made the right ones. [Apr 12, 2007]
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That's funny.

The whole pulling guys from Leopard to work on the iPhone reminds me of the school district I work for. The district techs have so many projects going, none of them get done in a reasonable amount of time. We just finished 2.5 weeks of testing where the kids had to take a reading test, language arts test and math test on the computer (usually one a day). So the district techs had to upload the results when done for the day. Plus, the district bought a new iMac for each teacher (or Macbbok for travelling teachers). Actually, we didn't have the money to get every teacher one so some teachers will have to wait until the new fiscal year. But anyways, my particular school has had 9 iMacs in the lab since I think December and they're still in the boxes! I don't see why the district keeps all the computers in one central location, do whatever needs to be done to them and then ship them off to the schools. When I ask when the iMacs will be ready to go, the district techs always have the same answer: they're really busy right now so they don't know.
 
I love how people piss n' moan about the addition of a game, despite being given little to no real spotlight by Apple itself, and only being a headline on a rumor site. Seriously, it's not important, but nothing to gripe about. Silly whiners and their "Where's Leopard?" We all know it's delayed for the OS X lite + iPhone project, but unless little Timmy in Idaho will die unless his computer is given a fresh Leopard implant, there's little spilled milk to cry over.
 
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