Comments on: Today's Apple iPhone OS 3.0 Preview Event

By: Aethereus

Aethereus — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:00:43 +0000

pay for breath?

By: Richard Testani

Richard Testani — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:00:39 +0000

My 2 cents.
I think $10 to pay for a major OS upgrade is not that much. I pay $129 every time they upgrade MacOS X so to pay Apple for the work they are providing isn't that much.

Input controllers. Would a controller really make sense? The point of the device is to use your fingers as THE input device. A controller with a cord hanging off of a handheld device would seem weird, just get an XBOX. And a controller would lessen the mobility of the iPhone.

Rich.

By: sam

sam — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:08:04 +0000

why £5?! every update- i have to pay! then it seems 6 months later it becomes free with next paid for update.

and this in game pay? do we get any objects with the sims3 or do we have to pay for all?

By: AntAstrophY

AntAstrophY — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:24:03 +0000

mirco transactions in games pfft yah i dont think so....
as for the whole LiveFire pricing for the rocket launcher only being a demo price of 99cents? seriously do we really think they would charge less? 50cents? 20cents? 5 cents?
if anything i think that 99cent marker would go up

By: antonioj

antonioj — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:06:16 +0000

also think the possibility of external controls will finally make the iphone platform to be a complete gaming system

if it is official, it will be much like the wii stuff...plenty of games have several types of controls, depending on what add-ons people have (balance board, nunchuk, classic controler, gun thing, etc)

By: Dolly

Dolly — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 10:38:49 +0000

10 bucks is nothing, really. I think it's an OK price point for ipod touch owners.

I was just thinking about this accessory thing. An official gaming controller would kill the iphone and ipod touch as gaming devices. Most developers would focus on one of the controller schemes, touch or external d-pad. Very often a half-complete touch implementation will be advertised as "touch and d-pad compatible", and very soon every iphone user would have to pack their d-pad or joystick before going out, or buy Nintendo DS

By: Jesper

Jesper — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 09:53:49 +0000

When are they gonna include music quiz in that D:<

By: RedStaR

RedStaR — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:54:46 +0000

You iPod touch users are funny

3.0 doesn't come out till this summer

I think you can save 10 bucks til then

glad I have an iPhone

By: David

David — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:10:44 +0000

Don't be smug, iPhone owners, about the fee. If you plan to keep your iPhone longer than 2 years, then you will have to pay for upgrades as well since Apple is only amortizing the income from the sale of said iPhone for 24 months. Since this fee/no fee is the result of an artificial accounting construct, a 2 year old iPhone is no different than an iPod Touch.

Ok, you be can snug again, who is going to go 2 years without upgrading to the latest Apple goodness?

By: Fokion

Fokion — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:07:45 +0000

Yay at cut copy and paste and the possible use of accessories.

Hopefully, we're finally going to see a Greek keyboard for the machine, as Apple & Vodafone saw fit to release the iPhone over here without one. Needless to say, the iPhone is the only smart phone in the Greek market to suffer from this handicap. Even 5 year old Qtek devices have localized keyboards. But hey, it's a "special" piece of kit, right?

Anyhoo, looking forward to the update, even if I had to buy a specialized app in order to type e-mails in my native language.

By: Reese McLean

Reese McLean — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 02:16:56 +0000

You guys are totally missing out on the biggest announcement for games on the iphone... the ability to use accessories with the dock connector. This means game controller add ons should be coming which will expand the options developers will have to interface and for users to control games.

For a gadget company it should be an obvious move to make a joystick and button add-on like the concepts we have seen and developing a framework for developers to use. If this idea is not on its way it should be.

By: 8bitgeorge

8bitgeorge — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:35:33 +0000

Thinking further in the DLC situations, it's a good incentive for developers to continue updating released games with decent content (since no one would buy it if they take a cheap approach to selling 1 new feature -- ideally).

By: mek

mek — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:17:13 +0000

@Brett Archibald - haha hey i didn't say it, it was just in the Q&A according to gizmodo....the question was why the original iphone would not get bluetooth and mms and they said cause of the radio, which i suppose he didn't answer the mms question, that is what they said -haha...

they are in the business of selling hardware.....and now microsoftware

By: Noah

Noah — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:56:01 +0000

@slappy: Totally. Stop complaining about high gas prices. Just walk to work a few days.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:54:38 +0000

Has no one read this post and subsequent comments from Ngmoco?

I'll spell it out: Apple got some of their mates on stage to say nice things about their new SDK and show off some quick-and-dirty examples of a payment mechanism that's intended as much for eBook reader and sat-nav apps as gamers.

*EXAMPLES.* Demonstrations. Understand?

Nothing that was shown necessarily represented shipping products.

I agree with many of the comments here, that charging for bug fixes would be cheeky - it would also be commercial suicide for a developer so don't expect it to happen.

As for extra content, whether the extra levels recently added to Sway and iDracula, or a new song in a game like Tap Tap Revenge justify a few cents here, a dollar there is down to your own judgement.

Just vote with your money.

There's nothing unusual about downloadable extras these days. See Little Big Planet.