[casual_games] Casual_Games Digest, Vol 21, Issue 9

[Lennard Feddersen]

I'm not particularly pleased about it but if I was Apple it would 
certainly be my strategy.  Ensuring quality and high standards as well 
as being a well paid gate keeper was a great strategy for Nintendo for a 
long time.

Lennard Feddersen
CEO, Rusty Axe Games, Inc.
www.RustyAxe.com

Lennard at RustyAxe.com
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Alex Amsel wrote:

> Simple answer. It is affected. And it isn't just about crappy 

> applications, it's about buggy applications, viruses, etc.

>

> Console platform holders, god love'em, know exactly what they're doing 

> by restricting releases. It's all about "brand".

>

>

> Juan Gril wrote:

>> Gniweko was saying:

>> "No, actually that decision makes sense. Apple wants to be able to

>> control the user experience. After all, that's the main thing that

>> differentiates the iPhone from similar devices. If they open up, you'll

>> get some cool software but also a lot of crap, and Apple is probably

>> worried that the crappy stuff would reflect badly on the iPhone."

>>

>> That's interesting. Why do you think the PC market (both in Windows 

>> and MacOSX desktop) doesn't seem to be affected by that? Last time I 

>> checked, there is a lot of crap released for both operating systems.

>>

>> Cheers,

>>

>> Juan

>>

>>

>> On 1/11/07, *Gniewko Lubecki* <gniewko at fertilemind.net 

>> <mailto:gniewko at fertilemind.net>> wrote:

>>

>>     > > Learning that the iPhone is not open is very disappointing.

>>     >

>>     > I find it a very strange decision from Apple if this is true.

>>

>>     No, actually that decision makes sense. Apple wants to be able to

>>     control the user experience. After all, that's the main thing that

>>     differentiates the iPhone from similar devices. If they open up,

>>     you'll

>>     get some cool software but also a lot of crap, and Apple is probably

>>     worried that the crappy stuff would reflect badly on the iPhone.

>>     That's

>>     what happened in the early, open days of console gaming - a glut of

>>     low-quality games turned people off the whole idea of video games

>>     for a

>>     while.

>>

>>     It seems that their best strategy would be to keep the iPhone closed,

>>     but make it fairly easy to get approved to develop software for it.

>>

>>     Gniewko

>>

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