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Google starts to index an additional source of publicly available content.

or in other words,
nothing at all has happened.

This should be tagged !story.

Let me get this straight. Apple have released something shiny and not given it to you for free, and in your head that means they are forcing you to pirate it. Forcing you? Really, is that the best you can do?

I don't have to; when the announcement of the jailbreak and the incitement to run pirated software appear in the same slashdot headline, you're doing a perfectly good job of tarring yourselves.

Great, you can run Siri on an iPod touch. Well done.

Now try convincing the world at large that jailbreaking is not primarily motivated by the running of pirated apps.

FTFY.

but most of all I like LOUD speakers

The other feature of successful game engines is that they, generally speaking, don't pin a core i7 at 100% usage drawing half a dozen objects at 15fps with a lighting model which would have looked dated in 2001.

I thought it was about camouflaging unpicturesque donkeys.

I thought it was fair clear in context that I was talking about dissatisfaction on the part of other manufacturers, who had bought into Android on the understanding that they would all be on a level playing field.

I thought it was fair clear in context that I was talking about dissatisfaction on the part of other manufacturers, who had bought into Android on the understanding that they would all be on a level playing field.

I reckon by 2013 Google will either be making all Android hardware, or none of it.

What will the other manufacturers making Android handsets think about this? Who would license an OS from a company which also manufactures directly competing hardware and sells it on a large scale? There was broad dissatisfaction with the Nexus One, and that was just one handset. Clearly Google are most interested in the patents (to fight against Apple, Nokia, Microsoft et al) but is that worth destroying the partnership with other companies? Maybe they think they can go it alone.

There are even more ways to ruin a Mac game than a PC version. All of the ones in that article, plus why bother to write a native port when you can run everything through a Windows API translation layer instead? It's a sure-fire route to making performance suck, and only the real pedants will care about things like .ini files randomly turning up in the Documents folder.

What annoys me most is their arrogance; it's like the publishers expect me to be grateful for scraps. Assassins Creed II actually manages to be incompatible with Keyboards (seriously - if you're on a laptop than you have to use the built-in keyboard, anything plugged into the USB won't be recognized). Ubisoft tech support said: "At this point in time there is no plant for a patch to change this. I wish there was enough space on the game box to write all this, but i will defiantly escalate your query to head office." Never mind that the game box was Steam's web page with essentially unlimited space, in what universe does it make more sense to advertise your bugs than to fix them? I just wish I could have been there to see that defiant escalation...

Assassins Creed II had a reputation of being one of the best games in years. Yet, when the Mac version came out I didn't buy it (a) because of the DRM, (b) because of reports of sucky performance. Months later, Steam got it from a fraction of the original price and I finally caved. So although my purchase might be counted in the sales figures for this "successful DRM", actually Ubisoft got much less money from me than if the DRM were absent.

Unfortunately it turns out my fears on (b) turned out to be justified (it's a Transgaming port, after all...) It's buggy too: running on a laptop it can't even accept input from USB keyboards. Ubisoft tech support said: "At this point in time there is no plant for a patch to change this. I wish there was enough space on the game box to write all this, but i will defiantly escalate your query to head office." Never mind that the game box was Steam's web page with esentailly unlimited space, in what universe does it make more sense to advertise your bugs than to fix them? I just wish I could have been there to see that defiant escalation...

I agree that Ubisoft frequently make good games. The only trouble is that they have just about the worst QA in the industry.