I've got to admit, it's a pretty clever way of tricking people into going to a site; people rarely fall for the url shortening sites any more, but everyone trusts Google! (Except Slashdot of course, we don't like anyone).

It's important to note that the loss of profit may not be from the App store, but from the fact that people will have little reason to buy an iPhone if every app is available on every platform; Apple makes the majority of it's profit off hardware not software.

Oh by the way, the Crookes Radiometer doesn't help you argument; I quote:

I'd imagine this screen-refresh issue would be solved if the rendering was done at home with your desktop PC and was then streamed to you sitting in your living room onto your tablet of choice. I've always wondered if it would be a cool idea to have a 'home server' that just ran dummy machines at the end to just completely run off the server, it'd mean you could use nearly any device and have all the same interface.

Mind you I'm currently in a flat with 5 people in it, so I'd imagine that's really the minimum you'd want this setup for (or if you had 5 people in total that are in the flat a lot).

I think what they're trying to get at is to remove all the rubbish that doesn't need to be in the game, and to a certain extent I agree.

A lot of my favourite games have been made fairly recently and are short but sweet, the two that stick out in my head being Braid and Portal.

Sure they're not 'simple' challenge wise, but they keep the aim of the game simple and to the point; not only that but they actually force you to change the way you think. I adore watching people play Braid and Portal just because you can see how they struggle until something finally clicks and they start thinking outside of the box.

Best does not always equal the most productive, best for them probably includes: ease of planning permission, speed at which they can be built, price at which they can be built; most companies are probably looking for the shortest payback period, not the highest output (they're not always the same thing).

I was led to believe they meant the same subset of symptoms but originated from different causes; Psychopaths being born with some sort of defect that lead them to their behaviour, while a Sociopath having the source from upbringing and post-birth conditioning.

Oh don't get me wrong, I'm sure it's very possible to do it; just that 99% of the time it'll be uninspired drivel that I certainly wouldn't want to play.

That is except for games where it's suitable, space environments or games like Eufloria are very suited towards that sort of procedurally derived content.

For some games randomly generated levels work, but for a lot of games it just means un-inspired bland levels most of the time.

It might work for some games like Mario; but even in the relatively simple genre of 2D scrollers there are some examples of where it wouldn't work, take Braid for example.

Why need an expansive battery when you have a viable source of power between your legs?

I'd say my suggestion is more like taking a shot at your foot and hoping it misses.

Personally I'd think that Adobe standing up for itself, and perhaps threatening Apple with some-sort of discontinuing of it's products on Macs may knock some sense into Apple; it'd probably be a good thing for Adobe in the long run.

If Apple obviously doesn't want to play nice with Adobe, why should Adobe keep providing Apple with a main selling feature of Macs? (The supposed fact they're for multimedia work).

A million monkeys, with a million typewriters and all that; you may have a point.

EA has been getting better recently, with titles like Mirror's Edge.

The problem being that after a moment of genius, they relapse, meaning they'll probably develop a 2nd, 3rd, 4th etc.; bleeding the series dry.