engadgetmobile.com— At an iPhone event held today, John Geleynse (AKA Director of Technology Evangelism at Apple) made some statements regarding the iPhone platform that should seriously raise a few eyebrows.
Dec 13, 2008View in Crawl 4
@BenitoTo begin, I believe the PSX emulator is already finished (link: <a class="user" href="http://www.fpsece.net/).">http://www.fpsece.net/).</a> According to the requirements, you also should be able to run it fine.Next, truthfully, I had not known about the this 'IPMart' place, which is showing a far larger list of apps/games than I had seen on other websites. Furthermore, I had known about the Java Midlets for WM, but had never been able to find decent WM Java apps/games. I'm flushed to say, but perhaps I may have judged WM too quickly, and there is far more to explore.As I said, I do love my 8525, and would prefer not to have to purchase the iPhone, so thank you for the recommendations. You've helped me greatly.
Reasons why not:1) Cost of the system itself with the cellular contract2) Lack of buttons3) Lack of removable/upgradable storage. Developers will have to keep file sizes down, removing functionality and graphics. Katamari Damacy for example looks like crap compared to the PSP version. You'll get DS quality graphics/audio for the most part. Then you might as well play on a DS which has a touchscreen and a motion sensing add on (and obviously lower cost, plus devs tend to get more space to work with too and better multiplayer). Personally, I believe no HANDHELD should require a PC to install games. And those sub-10 MB games that you can download without a PC are horrible. Downloading anything bigger over Wifi (I haven't tried, not sure if you can) would be slow/painful especially considering the bugs in the latest firmware which interfere with OTA installing. I've even had one app UNINSTALL itself and fail at trying to reinstall.4) Lack of multiplayer for the most part5) Restrictions put in place by Apple limit game developers. For example, they aren't allowed to make a script parser of any kind. Which means no RPGs or any other game with script-based events.6) The whole, games can quit at any time thing about it being a phone and all. Not all games can save at any moment.7) Lack of processing power. It's roughly half as powerful as the PSP plus it has an OS which takes power for itself. Any game relying on power would be better off played on a PSP. You wouldn't have to worry about any of the above points. Developers would get 1.8 GB to work with (meaning vastly superior audio and visual quality, plus more game content) plus the ability to download more content.8) Battery life. Even the tapwave zodiac is a better game device than the iphone. It has one big touchscreen, an analog thumbstick, 2 shoulder buttons, 5 face/normal buttons, 2 SD card slots, roughly the same processing power, no phone calls/quitting the game to worry about or restrictions on making games.
samiam0007Dec 13, 2008
Apple also claims they make computers too... psaw.... Computers.....
localdocalDec 14, 2008
@BenitoTo begin, I believe the PSX emulator is already finished (link: <a class="user" href="http://www.fpsece.net/).">http://www.fpsece.net/).</a> According to the requirements, you also should be able to run it fine.Next, truthfully, I had not known about the this 'IPMart' place, which is showing a far larger list of apps/games than I had seen on other websites. Furthermore, I had known about the Java Midlets for WM, but had never been able to find decent WM Java apps/games. I'm flushed to say, but perhaps I may have judged WM too quickly, and there is far more to explore.As I said, I do love my 8525, and would prefer not to have to purchase the iPhone, so thank you for the recommendations. You've helped me greatly.
gregus1032Dec 14, 2008
ZZZINNGGG
Closed AccountDec 16, 2008
Reasons why not:1) Cost of the system itself with the cellular contract2) Lack of buttons3) Lack of removable/upgradable storage. Developers will have to keep file sizes down, removing functionality and graphics. Katamari Damacy for example looks like crap compared to the PSP version. You'll get DS quality graphics/audio for the most part. Then you might as well play on a DS which has a touchscreen and a motion sensing add on (and obviously lower cost, plus devs tend to get more space to work with too and better multiplayer). Personally, I believe no HANDHELD should require a PC to install games. And those sub-10 MB games that you can download without a PC are horrible. Downloading anything bigger over Wifi (I haven't tried, not sure if you can) would be slow/painful especially considering the bugs in the latest firmware which interfere with OTA installing. I've even had one app UNINSTALL itself and fail at trying to reinstall.4) Lack of multiplayer for the most part5) Restrictions put in place by Apple limit game developers. For example, they aren't allowed to make a script parser of any kind. Which means no RPGs or any other game with script-based events.6) The whole, games can quit at any time thing about it being a phone and all. Not all games can save at any moment.7) Lack of processing power. It's roughly half as powerful as the PSP plus it has an OS which takes power for itself. Any game relying on power would be better off played on a PSP. You wouldn't have to worry about any of the above points. Developers would get 1.8 GB to work with (meaning vastly superior audio and visual quality, plus more game content) plus the ability to download more content.8) Battery life. Even the tapwave zodiac is a better game device than the iphone. It has one big touchscreen, an analog thumbstick, 2 shoulder buttons, 5 face/normal buttons, 2 SD card slots, roughly the same processing power, no phone calls/quitting the game to worry about or restrictions on making games.
Closed AccountDec 23, 2008
Maybe Steve Jobs is ill after all with frivolous claims like this.
oridzinalDec 24, 2008
there is nothing to claim - iPhone - is a gaming console. that's enough!
driversplazaJan 8, 2009
Well iPod Touch And Iphone are nice for gaming just like ngage - - more of gaming news @ <a class="user" href="http://www.techlookz.com/gamers-news/">http://www.techlookz.com/gamers-news/</a>