Apple pulls $349.99 game after developer bashes App Store at GDC
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* "If I'm a scammer for charging $399.99 for a stupid app, Apple is a scammer for charging a starting price of $500 for a sub par netbook" is just bad, empty logic. Ranting about the iPad at all is a pointless tangent.
* "A PHONE IS NOT A GENERIC GAMING PLATFORM. IT WORKS FOR SOME GAMES, BUT NOT EVERYTHING. I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH. JUST BECAUSE SOMETHING HAS THE ABILITY TO RUN GAMES THAT DOESN'T MEAN EVERY GAME SHOULD BE MADE FOR IT." Thank you, sir, but I and other gamers will decide what we think are gaming platforms, no matter how many capital letters you throw at us. Hint: PCs were supposed to be business machines.
It's an unfocused, juvenile hissy fit, which is too bad because it started with a valid grievance.
"I and other gamers will decide what we think are gaming platforms"
He's not suggesting that it isn't a gaming platform - he's just saying that not every game can be experienced as well as it potentially could on that device.
Perhaps it's a bit of reading between the lines, but the second comment to the post (on the blog itself, not here) reads "THANK YOU! THE iPHONE/iPOD IS NOT A GAMING DEVICE!", so I don't think I'm alone in reading that rant and walking away with the thought that the author is bitter about phones as a gaming platform, beyond just what his words literally say.
If that reading is incorrect, then I take solace in the fact that at least one other person was dumb enough to read it as I did.
Perhaps we can get the default browser stylesheet changed from 1994-black-Times-new-roman-100%-width-on-white? Then turning this on would be as simple as pressing the "disable styles" hotkey in whatever browser you're in.