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The Game is on With the iPhone

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 at 1:55 PM - by

Game developers have been eager to get on the iPhone platform, according to BusinessWeek on Tuesday. Electronic Arts, Sega, Id Software and Gameloft are all planning games, and Gameloft is planning fifteen iPhone games for 2008.

John Carmack of Id Software believes that Apple's delivery system for software could be a breakthrough for mobile game publishers. That's because the other systems are hard to navigate, constrained and cumbersome. Mr. Carmack doesn't think the other players will be quick on the uptake with Apple's new business model either. "...it will be interesting to see how quickly the other players can react. Based on our experiences with the carriers, I am betting not very quickly," he said in a post at Slashdot.

While some developers have complained about certain restrictions of the SDK agreement, history shows that those with a a keen eye towards the possibilities of the new Apple SDK system will succeed very well indeed. With the power of the OS X platform and the built-in hardware such as the camera and accelerometer, the sky isn't even the limit for what can be done with the iPhone and games.

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Tue Mar 11, 2008 2:56 pm

MacSpudster here. Too lazy to log in. . .

Isn't *ANYONE* not exactly happy that the Dock Connector is "off limits"?

I've got several dock connection devices I'd love to hook to my iPod Touch. MacAlley's Microphone comes to mind.

Of course, if they opened access to the Dock Connector, it'd be rather easy for me to create an app to take advantage of the Mic, use VOIP (Skype, perhaps) and get a 'mobile' phone, per se. Though, only where WiFi is available.

Also, access to the Dock Connector could mean that the App using the connected device could trojan your computer, easily slipping by iTunes.

Looks like jail-breaking WILL continue well beyond the rev 2.0 firmware intro in June!

(Now, if I can just lose these stripped black & white clothing . . . and ball & chain!)

MacSpudster

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Tue Mar 11, 2008 3:17 pm

(one post got your point across, three is redundant )

Apple's not going to let go of their lucrative Made for iPod/iPhone program that allows for dock connector accessories. So you can't access it using the SDK, but if you pay Apple enough they'll let you.

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Tue Mar 11, 2008 3:18 pm

Need some coding help

I have a very popular Bible site for iPhone, and want to release it as an app. Very simple stuff, but need some help as I have no experience whatsoever in coding.

See: godsiphone.com

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daishin said:

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Wed Mar 12, 2008 12:56 am

iPhone games interest poses crisis (Ch. danger + opportunity) potential. Game apps have huge appeal, will sell like hotcakes, and will also freak out corporate IT mgrs, who in turn may try to suppress iPhone use among personnel. Personnel, in turn, will try to jailbreak/hack their iPhones to evade the phobic IT folks, who in turn will appeal to CIO's for permission to allow iPhones on corporate servers.

...and the beat goes on...

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