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Has Apple Created the Perfect Board Game Platform?
andylim writes "recombu.com is running an interesting piece about how Apple has created a 'Jumanji (board game) platform.' The 9.7-inch multi-touch screen is perfect for playing board games at home, and you could use Wi-Fi or 3G to play against other people when you're on your own. What would be really interesting is if you could pair the iPad with iPhones, 'Imagine a Scrabble iPad game that used iPhones as letter holders. You could hold up your iPhone so that no one else could see your letters and when you were ready to make a word on the Scrabble iPad board, you could slide them on to the board by flicking the word tiles off your iPhone.' Now that would be cool."
For $1600, I'd better be able to use words like "zoquou" and "ushnuu".
How is less than 10 inches perfect?
That's what she said.
"There are no facts, only interpretations." --Friedrich Nietzsche.
So for only $499 + $299/phone, you can play a $75 board game electronically!
$75?
Where the hell do you shop for board games?
Here, I'll lend you a decimal --> .
But, seriously, implementing board games well on a computer demands a lot more than a small touch-sensitive display. Simple non-social games are easier, but they work just fine on a traditional PC.
NO
I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
You'll finally get to use that +5 Wand of Fucking.
Let's hope it isn't cursed.
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30% Underrated
20% Funny
God bless the /. crowd :)
I haven't been able to let go of it since puberty
You better watch out, there may be dogs about . .
Analogy time: You can raise the tastiest pigs in the world, and cure the awesomest bacon ever known to man, but if I keep kosher, I can't eat it. See, Apple is rabbinical law, and the i~Device hardware is the bacon. Apple only wants you to eat Apple-cured bacon, which isn't made from pigs at all. It's made from hipsters in Apple's secret Cupertino rent-controlled hipster abbatoir. You can't have the regular bacon, which is unfettered hardware.
Wait... The iPad hardware is bacon, and the bacon isn't bacon, but bacon is hardware, and Apple wants you to eat kosher and...
I think you lost me. Could you try this as a car analogy?
Bow-ties are cool.
I too carry around a Scrabble and Risk board with me everywhere I go. It may be a pain to carry the large boxes and bags of tiny pieces to work, out at a bar with friends, to the park, out on dates and whatnot. But at least I'm not one of those suckers with an iPad—they can play board games anywhere at any time with their friends, but they had to pay so much. They probably don't use their iPads for anything other than board games. Like yourself, I don't want to give up carrying around board game boxes everywhere just to look 'cool' or to 'fit in' like those Mac cultists.
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I know its processor capabilities well.
That's interesting. I'd been given to understand that this was a proprietary processor. The only explanation I can think of is that you were actually part of the A4 or iPhone OS team.
And yet you correctly state that the iPhone OS (and the iPad version is the same) don't do multi-task/threading.
Okay, you weren't on the OS team, and you have some reading comprehension difficulties, otherwise, you wouldn't have said that, given that the GP actually went to some pains to point out the OS does do multitasking/multithreading, and he's correct. So, that leaves the A4 team.
What can you tell us about the chip?
Tweet, tweet.
No dice. Less space than Monopoly. Lame.