Sometimes, the producer doesn't even consider porting a particular game to a particular platform until the platform has gamepad support. In such a case, it might take even longer to get the port up and running, as the port team would have to familiarize itself with the new platform. Ouya and Shield hitting store shelves and the "Gooya" announcement are likely to change this.

How do you "out of band re-record" a video game?

CronoCloud explained before how the NES and its complete lack of loading time stopped the sale of C64s.

Could you explain why PNG images that aren't derived from an underlying SVG or layered XCF are not "source code"?

Not if the big name developers drop last year's console the way they dropped Xbox when the 360 came out or dropped GameCube when the Wii came out.

There wasn't really a gaming press back then. Nowadays, good video games are far more likely to get good reviews on the Web, and there are review aggregators.

Did you forget the Newton MessagePad 2000 dock connector or the AppleJack controller port for the Pippin console? And was the DuoDock connector on the PowerBook Duo subnotebooks proprietary?

How long does it take for every TV with an HDMI input to accept AirPlay signals? About as long as it takes to ship an Apple TV to your door.

I think it'd be obvious given eSATAp, another combined USB and storage connector.

Pages open in a minimized web browser keep running script functions triggered by window.setInterval(). Installed programs want to keep their own update notifiers and other daemons (Winamp Agent, Apple Mobile Device Service, Java Quick Starter, etc.) running in the background.

Including the 1541 disk drive? And how long did it take for games to load on a C64 compared to the second- and third-generation consoles?

Tablets didn't start coming with Google Play until Honeycomb. Kindle Fire, Coby Kyros, and older Archos products don't have it, for instance.

But does it allow narrowing the search results to applications compatible with a single device on a given account? If not, the user would have to tap each search result, "no, that isn't compatible", tap another, "no, that isn't compatible either", etc.