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That's a rather blinkered outlook.

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True. x86 is dead and hopefully this will speed that up.

The ability to take a gadget and make it do something completely different is really overrated. I jailbroke my iPhone for a while, but there wasn't really any compelling reason for me (non l33t) to keep it broken.

While the app store isn't perfect, imagine how much cr@pware and viruses there would be in there if it wasn't checked. When I first got my mac I wanted a cheap/free graphics package to use on it. Do you know how much cruft you have to search through to find something decent? "Use package x" says some blog but doh, it hasn't been updated in two years, and neither has the app. Or it has but it won't run on current/old versions of OSX. App store makes it easier.

As for getting your OS from the store. Well, over the years you have probably replaced a lot of your current OS with system updates. This just takes it one stage further.

Mobile dial up more like.

I have written a iOS game called MatchuM. Its a Mah Jong solitaire game without all the "oriental baggage" you get in those games. It is on the app store but hardly anyone knows its there. It doesn't matter how good your game is, once it has fallen off the "new releases" screen in iTunes then what do you do? How do you let people know its there? The "freeappaday" people want £2.5K to advertise it, but thats probably more then I have spent on hardware in the last 20 years, so thats a no go.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/matchum/id379622306

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My only complaint about OSX is its toolbars. Every app has them but Apple thinks they demean the application, so they only stick about 5 command buttons on it. So despite having a mouse you have to remember obscure keyboard short cuts to get practically anything done. I know there are menus but they are just so 1980s. Using Xcode on a laptop is like using Wordstar 30 years ago.

The thing is, you can only make a thing so "lean and mean". After you have optimized it to within an inch of its life, then what are you going to spend all that Google ad revenue on?

Like they don't just copy the first paragraph of the article in question and post that as the summary.

Admittedly it used very subtly in SSF4 but you can see it. If you look closely you will see that the characters arms are on a different level of depth to their bodies, which are out in front of the hummers and hippos which in turn, are in front of the shakey cardboard backdrops. It's the same old 2D game but played out in a 3D setting. If you can't actually see the 3D effect then turn the 3D off or stick with a DSI.

I have got a 3DS and SSF4 and the 3D effect is amazing. It really looks like the characters have taken on a solid form and are wandering around behind the screen. It requires no glasses and i have had no trouble playing it for half hour straight (one round of arcade). Frankly if they could scale the size of the screen up to monitor size it would be great. Just think if your fave FPS was in 3D. The HUD would sit on the front of the screen and the other players would be running around behind the screen. It would add a whole new level of realism. 2D is always going to look like watching something on TV. Of course it's not true 3D as you cant peer round the back of things on screen but it really does add to the experience.

This is why you can never compare games and movies. A movie comes out and you pay top whack to see it in the cinema. Initial DVD release is 6 months later and after a year it is mid price. After 5 years it is in the bargain bin and after 10 it is in a box set. It is not making as much, but it is still making money 10 years later. Now compare that to games. Apart from RPGs (mass effect, etc) most games are dead within the year. Certainly all the 09, 10, 11 sports games are. If games were around longer they would sell more. Ask Steam.

Do you really want to see those classic golden age Disney movies f***ed to within an inch of their lives? It is only because Disney knows it can sell them for a nth time that you get the nice DVD\Blu-Ray\(probable)3D masters that we get now. Believe me, if someone thinks they can make a few quid selling a box set of TV ripped DVDs then they will probably try it.

Yeah, it is just you.