appleinsider.com — Apple Computer has hired video game designers and may have aspirations of entering the video game market in long-term. "The game console device could be morphed out of some combination of the MacMini and iTV, while the handheld player could be developed as an enhancement to a future version of the widescreen iPod"
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rickcarsonDec 6, 2006
Apple supports a lot more than a dozen different configurations, partly because they support machines a lot longer than would be otherwise true in the generic PC world.I'm not sure if they still support G3s, but I know they support G4s, G5s and the multiple different flavours of multiple CPU systems (G5 as well as intel duo and core 2 duo). Plus combinations of those with various graphics cards from a couple of different graphics card manufacturers... (etc)So factually speaking, you are wrong.My subjective opinion is that what it boils down to is that Apple (as a hardware manufacturer) probably supports about as many different configurations as any other major hardware manufacturer.As a software/operating system manufacturer, compare them with Microsoft and Linux. Do those other OSes support the hardware themselves, or get the vendors to support them? In Microsoft's case they support nothing, and let the vendors do all the hard work for them, in Linux's case they do the work themselves, but it is an uphill battle for them, and support for third party devices has historically been one of their weak points.So I think as a hardware manufacturer Apple is on a par with its competitors, as a software manufacturer they do a lot better than their competitors.
rickcarsonDec 6, 2006
That was soooo last decade ago.I find the Apple bashers who bring up crap from the 80s and 90s just as bad as the Apple fanboys who bring up the 70s and 80s. So what if they invented the PC? Build a bridge and get over it. Ford may have invented (the mass production of) the car, but there are plenty of other car manufacturers to choose from today.
mabhatterDec 6, 2006
well we are the 13th colony... the other 12 have spaceships and build killer robots! Maybe we were the Accounting Tribe?
mabhatterDec 6, 2006
that was the best money MS spent.. like the saying goes, if Microsoft didn't have Apple to be the token competitor for Anti trust they would have to create Apple... in that case they really Did have to bail Apple out. Imagine how the monopoly trial would have gone with Apple execs on the stand telling how mac versions were crippled and other PC makers got prefered treatment from MS? Somebody would have gotten jail time with no way for a president to help them out.
diggaidenDec 6, 2006
@rickcarson:There are Dell fanboys?"Dell (for instance) is probably just as secretive (if not more so) as Apple. "This statement is funny, though. Apple's waaaaaaay more secretive than Dell; it's part of the mystique. Remember that whole Asteroid brouhaha? Secrecy is very important to Apple. Can't say I blame them.Dell? We all know they make computers. What kind of "secrets" are they holding back Maybe their methodology? Joe Public doesn't care about that, though. They're pretty predictable--Intel comes out with a new chip, they come up with a new model. LCD sizes increase, they come out with a new monitor.The last time they veered away from that (the late unlamented Ditty), they got burned. I think they'll stick with what they do best.
supascoopaDec 6, 2006
Great, now instead of a new console coming out every 5 years we'll get one every 6 months.
loungeactxDec 6, 2006
hmmm...maybe we'll see a come back of Marathon!----or maybe not.....
codeeDec 6, 2006
I know there are tons of games for the Windows OS.Most games are released on Windows OS before or even simultaneously, with a console version. So, what's the fuss? It's nothing to a Mac.Just use Boot Camp.
Closed AccountDec 7, 2006
Amazing and all it took was just to ask when would the buzz surface, you can read my comment here: <a class="user" href="http://digg.com/apple/The_ACTUAL_iPhone_Patent_Application,">http://digg.com/apple/The_ACTUAL_iPhone_Patent_Application,</a> didn't know I would get an answer to my question so soon. OK music player, phone, gaming covered so what's next, a wild guess....IPTV, ohhhh that got covered already. IMHO all these companies know finally all these media and devices are going to converge into one, so they are doing their best to cover all and not miss any opportunities when the final convergence occurs, right now it could go anyway but cell phones seem the most promising.