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Game center is completely removed from iOS 10 altogether. http://toucharcade.com/2016/06...

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/... is a basic reference but hides how abusive the game companies are.

http://toucharcade.com/2015/09... is the most damning, but also check http://motherboard.vice.com/re... and the coercive monetisation part of http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs...

Because I'm bored...

Sony
http://www.techhive.com/articl...

Microsoft
http://www.escapistmagazine.co...

Nintendo
http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
http://toucharcade.com/2014/05...

Bryan Reynolds (lead producer) and Timothy Train (lead designer) both left Fireaxis in 2000. Sid Meyer wasn't the driving creative force behind SMAC (he did help design it, but it wasn't his baby). Kinda hard to do a sequel when the designers leave.

Speaking of rights, EA just got the trademark for Alpha Centauri late last year. Some peope think it's going to be an ipad port/new game. EA may suck, but I'd still love to play Alpha Centauri: Revolutions on my iPhone...

'Alpha Centauri' Trademarked By EA

Write the app for android and distribute it via your site.

Then how will users on AT&T (the only nationwide GSM carrier in the United States now that it's buying T-Mobile) use it? Android-powered phones sold to AT&T customers have no "Unknown sources" checkbox, and the carrier has no plans designed for people who bring their own GSM handset. And how will you convince people to re-buy all their other apps when switching to an Android-powered phone?

what are these magical apps that you can't get on Android

The developer of Tiny Wings has no time to port it to Android.

or at least some kind of a clone

The Tetris Company routinely files OCILLA notices to get Tetris clones taken down from Android Market. Some other publishers of widely cloned games do that as well.

The only reason it got pulled was because it was doing something *Apple* didn't want it to do, not because it was doing something the *users* didn't want it to do.

It got pulled because it was doing something different from what the author claimed it was doing.

Do you have a list of applications that have been pulled from the Apple website because they were data mining their users?

The list is small because generally they don't make it to the App Store in the first place. But there have been examples, if you've been paying attention. e.g.:
http://toucharcade.com/2008/07/24/aurora-feint-temporarily-offline/

The main reason why people jailbreak is to get decent apps that will never be approved (such as emulators) on their phone.

You were saying?

I think people jailbreak for either (a) more customization, (b) pirating, (c) free tethering. At this point there are very few classes of desirable apps that aren't able to be on the app store.

With a lack of a central authority forbidding such things, most people are less likely to root their Android device unless they are geeks.

Unless they need to do so to install software updates so they can get recent applications.

How's this for starters:

http://toucharcade.com/2009/06/20/full-commodore-64-emulator-rejected-from-app-store/

Called the iPhone/Touch console. Check out Touch Arcade for more info.

When developing a game for the most popular online phone game store will net you $250,000 in two months, as an independent developer:

http://toucharcade.com/2008/09/19/trism-developer-makes-250000-in-2-months/