I've gotten a few of those and always attributed it to a legitimate TMDA triggered by the newer breeds of email viruses that set the from: to be someone else from the addressbook (ie, me).
Regardless, his point is valid simply because that is the public perception of the situation. Yes, it may be cheaper to build your own, but if the public is actually swayed by the marketing, and believe it to not be the case, then it doesn't matter what the truth is.
You are failing to make the distinction between feedback and gesture devices. They are separate entities that benefit when combined. Feedback joysticks have been around for some time now and other feedback devices (iFeel mouse and others probably) are on the market now. Hell, Nin64 controllers have feedback modules.
Gesture based input need not have feedback, but it helps.
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I've gotten a few of those and always attributed it to a legitimate TMDA triggered by the newer breeds of email viruses that set the from: to be someone else from the addressbook (ie, me).
> I dunno what they're going to do with 62 gigabytes of pr0n, though.
Same thing what any of us do with 62 gigabytes of pr0n...
Regardless, his point is valid simply because that is the public perception of the situation. Yes, it may be cheaper to build your own, but if the public is actually swayed by the marketing, and believe it to not be the case, then it doesn't matter what the truth is.
You are failing to make the distinction between feedback and gesture devices. They are separate entities that benefit when combined. Feedback joysticks have been around for some time now and other feedback devices (iFeel mouse and others probably) are on the market now. Hell, Nin64 controllers have feedback modules. Gesture based input need not have feedback, but it helps.