For my Wii, I have Mario Strikers, Wario Ware, Eledees, Excite Truck, Zelda, Mario Party, Second Opinion, Metroid 3, Sonic, Rayman, Super Monkey Ball, Super Paper Mario and a bunch more. For the PS3, I have Motorstorm, Resistance, Warhawk (counting it as a real game instead of a downloadable), Ridge Racer 7, and Tony Hawk's. And let's not even compare downloadables.
Like most Appleinsider articles, this one is pure bullshit. Macjournals.com takes it apart. Choice quote:
"(...) its battery-chomping, disk-eating storage hog nature that makes it fantastic for 20TB disk arrays and entirely, completely unsuitable for a Mac OS X startup disk, now or in the foreseeable future."
Indeed. The Symbian UI on the SE phones is shit, and their homegrown UI is even worse. The level of suckage indeed does depend on the phone, but they all suck.
When I'm using a phone, I really don't stare at the UI and think "Oh, this is sooooo very pretty
Neither do I. UI Suckage has nothing to do with UI prettyness.
Sure, it looks pretty as hell, but it takes too long to make a call/set an alarm/etc. If I just want to make a call, it's annoying to have to fumble through several screens to make a call.
Make a phone call: Tap on the phone icon, scroll to the person, tap on the person, tap on the number you want to call. Set an alarm: Tap on the clock, tap on "Alarm", tap on "+", enter the time, tap on "Save."
I'm sorry, but if that takes you long, or if you have to "fumble through several screens to make a call," then you must be doing something terribly wrong. Try using a P990i some time and tell me how that goes, though.
Apple, as a company, doesn't care any more about it's users that, say, Microsoft.
Of course. All companies want to make as much buck as possible. Here's why Apple is better: Moto and LG don't sell to people, they sell to cell phone companies. Microsoft doesn't sell to people, they sell to corporations. Apple, on the other hand, sells to people. They make money when their users are happy. So Apple tries to make their users happy.
Now, the recent deals with AT&T and the music companies obviously mean that Apple isn't only trying to make the users happy anymore, and it shows. Some of the crap they're pulling with the iPhone, they would never have done even a few years ago. Yeah, Apple is getting arrogant, and their products aren't as user-oriented as they were. But they still make the best crap.
This is completely off-topic, but I'll be terribly sad to see the DS go. It's the last bastion of high-quality 2D gaming. After the DS, 2D will be dead. Even cell phone games are in 3D nowadays. So enjoy the days of top-notch 2D gaming while they last.
Uh... has the Slim's firmware even been hacked? I think not. Fortunately, all DS consoles work perfectly well with homebrew apps, and Nintendo doesn't seem to care.
Actualy I remeber the inverse happening: people endlessly based the PSP as an expensive port machine, while praiseing the wii and DS as the savior of videogames
That was after the launch, after the first year of the DS, when the good games started coming out.
To even speak ill of nintendo was just unheard of prelaunch.
You've got to be shitting me. That is the most bold faced lie I've heard all month. Before the DS launch, Nintendo was declared dead and ridiculed by gamers all over the world. How can you compete with the most advanced portable gaming device of all time by releasing a quirky, dual-screened, ugly abomination?
This would probably work with most people but my wife really HATES video games
Wii Sports isn't a video game. It's a simplistic sports simulator. People who hate video games generally (in my experience) love Wii Sports. Also, if she likes Monopoly, buy her Mario Party 8. You can even buy hotels in that game:-)
Uh, I don't think anyone thought you could just recompile games from PSP to Wii or vice-versa. But they do have similar hardware performance and screen resolution, so many games do appear on a combination of Wii, PS2 and PSP.
Yeah, I really don't understand the mentality in the game world of not being in first place means you're a failure.
Well, there's also the question of expectations. After the success of the PS2 and the stagnancy of the GBA, everyone expected Sony to beat Nintendo in the handheld market. When the DS was announced, people thought Nintendo was insane and doomed. It was laughable to expect something quirky like the DS to even sell half as well as something like the PSP. In fact, Nintendo itself said that the DS was only a third pillar next to the GBA, and the real GBA2 would come later. Pre-launch, Sony actually said comparisons between the PSP and the DS were unfair - to Nintendo.
It hasn't quite turned out that way. The DS is outselling the PSP 2:1 worldwide, when everyone expected the PSP to outsell the DS at least 5:1. And that's why the PSP is a failure: Not because it's doing poorly, but because it should be doing a lot better.
I don't think an MMORPG per se would be an issue. The problem is that Nintendo would only allow communication (as in "typing stuff") between people who have exchanged friend codes. For all other players, interaction would be anonymous (see Super Smash Bros Wii).
Well, it was like that (and Apple even publicly said that they didn't care about third-party apps) until someobdy figured out how to SIM-unlock the phone. After that, Apple closed the system down.
Uh, all Apple mice have right-click, and have had for quite some time. Also, lots of people love the new keyboard. You have to hack nothing to use gtkPod. I think you're a bit confused.
Well, licensing probably wasn't the whole reason why the Mac never became a bigger force. But frankly, I'm glad it didn't. Apple always had to fight to stay alive, and they did it by offering better solutions. Had Apple become dominant, as you point out, we would never have gotten Mac OS X.
So, frankly, I'm happy if Apple captures 1%-10% of the cell phone market. As long as the iPhone makes money (and I have no doubt that it will make a shitload of money) and doesn't become dominant, Apple will be forced to stay ahead of everyone else, just like they are with Mac OS X. And if that happens, I will continue giving them my money.
Note: Currently, developers create web applications for iPhone, not native applications. Therefore, this document focuses solely on the presentation of web applications and other web content on iPhone.
Yeah, they ripped them off by selling them a product, and later giving them back some of the money as a store credit. What other tech company has ever given back money to early adopters? Did Moto give you money for the 500 bucks RAZR you bought because they gave it away for free a few months later? Did SonyEricsson give me money for my P990i that cost me 1000 bucks, never really worked, and was discontinued in favour of the P1 a few months later (which costs half as much and actually works)?
Assuming Apple aren't liars and the iPhone really runs (a slimmed down version of) OS X
Wait, let me SSH into my phone. Yeah, seems to be OS X alright.
that would, in turns, mean they're not allowing developers to develop software for their PCs (by PC I mean "personal computer", not "x86 machine running MS Windows" as mac loonies would use it) as well?
Where did you get that idea? And who's the loonie here?
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For my Wii, I have Mario Strikers, Wario Ware, Eledees, Excite Truck, Zelda, Mario Party, Second Opinion, Metroid 3, Sonic, Rayman, Super Monkey Ball, Super Paper Mario and a bunch more. For the PS3, I have Motorstorm, Resistance, Warhawk (counting it as a real game instead of a downloadable), Ridge Racer 7, and Tony Hawk's. And let's not even compare downloadables.
Except Time Machine does not use ZFS.
Indeed. The Symbian UI on the SE phones is shit, and their homegrown UI is even worse. The level of suckage indeed does depend on the phone, but they all suck.
Neither do I. UI Suckage has nothing to do with UI prettyness.
Make a phone call: Tap on the phone icon, scroll to the person, tap on the person, tap on the number you want to call. Set an alarm: Tap on the clock, tap on "Alarm", tap on "+", enter the time, tap on "Save."
I'm sorry, but if that takes you long, or if you have to "fumble through several screens to make a call," then you must be doing something terribly wrong. Try using a P990i some time and tell me how that goes, though.
Of course. All companies want to make as much buck as possible. Here's why Apple is better: Moto and LG don't sell to people, they sell to cell phone companies. Microsoft doesn't sell to people, they sell to corporations. Apple, on the other hand, sells to people. They make money when their users are happy. So Apple tries to make their users happy.
Now, the recent deals with AT&T and the music companies obviously mean that Apple isn't only trying to make the users happy anymore, and it shows. Some of the crap they're pulling with the iPhone, they would never have done even a few years ago. Yeah, Apple is getting arrogant, and their products aren't as user-oriented as they were. But they still make the best crap.
This is completely off-topic, but I'll be terribly sad to see the DS go. It's the last bastion of high-quality 2D gaming. After the DS, 2D will be dead. Even cell phone games are in 3D nowadays. So enjoy the days of top-notch 2D gaming while they last.
Uh... has the Slim's firmware even been hacked? I think not. Fortunately, all DS consoles work perfectly well with homebrew apps, and Nintendo doesn't seem to care.
So yeah, I'd say bad choice on your part.
That was after the launch, after the first year of the DS, when the good games started coming out.
You've got to be shitting me. That is the most bold faced lie I've heard all month. Before the DS launch, Nintendo was declared dead and ridiculed by gamers all over the world. How can you compete with the most advanced portable gaming device of all time by releasing a quirky, dual-screened, ugly abomination?
Wii Sports isn't a video game. It's a simplistic sports simulator. People who hate video games generally (in my experience) love Wii Sports. Also, if she likes Monopoly, buy her Mario Party 8. You can even buy hotels in that game :-)
Uh, I don't think anyone thought you could just recompile games from PSP to Wii or vice-versa. But they do have similar hardware performance and screen resolution, so many games do appear on a combination of Wii, PS2 and PSP.
Well, there's also the question of expectations. After the success of the PS2 and the stagnancy of the GBA, everyone expected Sony to beat Nintendo in the handheld market. When the DS was announced, people thought Nintendo was insane and doomed. It was laughable to expect something quirky like the DS to even sell half as well as something like the PSP. In fact, Nintendo itself said that the DS was only a third pillar next to the GBA, and the real GBA2 would come later. Pre-launch, Sony actually said comparisons between the PSP and the DS were unfair - to Nintendo.
It hasn't quite turned out that way. The DS is outselling the PSP 2:1 worldwide, when everyone expected the PSP to outsell the DS at least 5:1. And that's why the PSP is a failure: Not because it's doing poorly, but because it should be doing a lot better.
I'm surprised, considering the PSP slim and a FF game came out.
So I take it you've never played cops and robbers as a kid? :-)
Lots of PC games are on the DS. Anno 1701, Theme Park or Age of Empires (also by Microsoft) are examples.
I don't think an MMORPG per se would be an issue. The problem is that Nintendo would only allow communication (as in "typing stuff") between people who have exchanged friend codes. For all other players, interaction would be anonymous (see Super Smash Bros Wii).
And you did get better from Apple, because they gave early adopters a 100 bucks store credit.
Well, it was like that (and Apple even publicly said that they didn't care about third-party apps) until someobdy figured out how to SIM-unlock the phone. After that, Apple closed the system down.
They also won't want to use anything else to begin with.
Also, how does the fact that you don't like Apple's mice show that Apple is bad?
Uh, all Apple mice have right-click, and have had for quite some time. Also, lots of people love the new keyboard. You have to hack nothing to use gtkPod. I think you're a bit confused.
Apple went after people who sold Apple's proprietary software, and you're holding that against them?
Explain to me what I can do with hardware, but not with software, except possibly reselling it (depending on how I bought it).
Maybe if you didn't insult people, you'd not get involved in flamewars.
Well, licensing probably wasn't the whole reason why the Mac never became a bigger force. But frankly, I'm glad it didn't. Apple always had to fight to stay alive, and they did it by offering better solutions. Had Apple become dominant, as you point out, we would never have gotten Mac OS X.
So, frankly, I'm happy if Apple captures 1%-10% of the cell phone market. As long as the iPhone makes money (and I have no doubt that it will make a shitload of money) and doesn't become dominant, Apple will be forced to stay ahead of everyone else, just like they are with Mac OS X. And if that happens, I will continue giving them my money.
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Note: Currently, developers create web applications for iPhone, not native applications. Therefore, this document focuses solely on the presentation of web applications and other web content on iPhone.Yeah, they ripped them off by selling them a product, and later giving them back some of the money as a store credit. What other tech company has ever given back money to early adopters? Did Moto give you money for the 500 bucks RAZR you bought because they gave it away for free a few months later? Did SonyEricsson give me money for my P990i that cost me 1000 bucks, never really worked, and was discontinued in favour of the P1 a few months later (which costs half as much and actually works)?
Wait, let me SSH into my phone. Yeah, seems to be OS X alright.
Where did you get that idea? And who's the loonie here?