I've hated Apple ever since my elementary school days. The computer labs had those old Apple II computers that took forever to load. The IBM compatible one I had at home never had that kind of a problem. #johncarmack
My friend was asking me the other day why he was all of a sudden gettting 10-20 text messages a day that are spam. he's had his iphone for 2 weeks and has Vampires Live and iMobsters. It could be a coincidence, but it seems like they may have sold his number.
Thanks for the info Kotaku, as I will be watching this very closely (pulls out magnifying glass) #iphone
But the iPhone! It's clearly the best handheld platform ever with its millions of apps!
Hey Apple, how about some quality control on iPhone apps instead of spending all your time touting how you have the most apps ever and therefore it's the best handheld ever?
@Spoony Bard: You realize you could have just damned them to heaven, right? Hades is the entire Greek underworld, including the good parts (Elysium). Next time damn them to Tartarus if you really can't bring yourself to just say hell. #iphone
storm8 Employee2: Not sure, it looks... like a Japanese High School or something?
storm8 Employee3: Hey Guys! Thank God I found someone normal! I just saw a bunch of kids being attacked by giant gloves... The poor kids shot themselves in the head to escape... Then these Even Bigger monsters appeared and attacked the first... It's some messed up shit here...
storm8 Employee1: Hey Guys, look out this window!
storm8 Employee2: ... What are all those coffins doing in the street? #iphone
@MechaTama31: Well, even Elysium wasn't exactly great. It was heaven in comparison to poetic tortures for all time, or the middle ground of complete boredom, but at best it was shadowy ashey pantomimes of the better parts of your life. Consistent with most mythologies at the time of what you could at most hope for by being a good person (ie not rewards, just no punishments). #iphone
@staySICK: Alas, I don't think that is the point really... But some of us now save such threads for all time at a forum we now also frequent. [talkamongstyourselves.freeforums.org]
For there are often times threads evolve from one simple joke or statement into something... wonderous... #iphone
@BGSS: They should have gotten a Gibson. They're much harder to hack, unless your name is Joey. Or Dade. Or Emanual. Or Kate. Or... you know what? Never mind. Just shoot these bastards for mining personal data. #iphone
100,000 applications... it would be nice if even 10,000 were actually useful, unique and/or can't be done on the Safari App already.
hell, how about 1000 that are useful?
ugh. this isn't a "PRO" when listing iphone uses. its a complete negative. To think that Apple actually screens these shitty Apps for "quality" makes me laugh. #apple
I know there's a lot of haters out there, but I've been enjoying some real gems on my iPhone. HookChamp is awesome, Civilization Revolution is a decent port of an addictive game, and my old standby Wild West Pinball still gets played at least once a week. Yes there's a lot of crap, but there's enough good stuff that I don't bother taking my DS with me on anything other than long trips anymore. #apple
@RoboticSpacePenguin: I'm in the same boat as you. My DS and PSP were my main portable gaming devices. Now I have my iPod Touch (which is much nicer to carry around than both my PSP and DS). I'm glad I can download a handful of $1 apps and be set for a week or two. It's nice to be able to load up a game in a snap and play something for two minutes. #apple
I don't want to beat a dead horse but i don't think we should be classing the iPhone/Touch as a gaming device. I own a 3G and it just isn't designed for games nor does it really provide the potential for anything more than gimmicky mini games. If we class this as a games device then anything out there including other phones that play games should be brought up. #apple
@Pyrefly: I play solitaire and other games on my Nokia N95, and I also play games like Monkey Island, Civ Rev, Ronaldo and the likes on my wife's iPod touch... and I can tell you one thing.. playing games on the Nokia phone does not feel like playing games on the iPod touch. While the iPhone and iPod touch were never designed with games as their primary use, they have become one of the most popular and widely used platforms for portable gaming.
A lot of the games on the iPod touch feels more like a "solid gaming experience" than a lot of the crap for the DS and PSP. While there's no Final Fantasy, Zelda, Ratchet & Clank or Metroid for it, there are quite a few quality games and more coming at a production value that I've never seen on a phone or MP3 player before... if the droid gets the same level of quality games I say we should see coverage of that as well.... but so far I have not seen anything on the N95 that makes me feel like it's doubling as a gaming device.
iphone apps = "To many apps, where is the quality control?!"
Mac desktops/laptops= "Wheres all the software?! this lack of support sucks!!"
Apple; When something becomes so much a part of pop culture, it becomes popular to hate.
See also: Windows, Ed hardy crap, Reality television, and Miley Cyrus. #apple
@Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair): *Pulls out a clipboard* Apple's official stance on whether or not the total number of apps is... Over Nine Thousand... has not yet been determined. Independent studies show that the number is, in fact...
... Over Nine Thousand.
(how come no one else is in on this? We must be the only cool kids left on Kotaku.) #apple
@Daniel @ playreadwrite.blogspot.com: I used to be able to count above 8,999.
But the general scorn lead to me a great a fear of using any number above 8,999 #apple
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What's so hard to understand? #johncarmack
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Thanks for the info Kotaku, as I will be watching this very closely (pulls out magnifying glass) #iphone
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Hey Apple, how about some quality control on iPhone apps instead of spending all your time touting how you have the most apps ever and therefore it's the best handheld ever?
*incoherent grumbling* #iphone
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Damn you, storm8! Damn you to the depths of Hades! #iphone
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storm8 Employee1: Woah, dude? Where are we?
storm8 Employee2: Not sure, it looks... like a Japanese High School or something?
storm8 Employee3: Hey Guys! Thank God I found someone normal! I just saw a bunch of kids being attacked by giant gloves... The poor kids shot themselves in the head to escape... Then these Even Bigger monsters appeared and attacked the first... It's some messed up shit here...
storm8 Employee1: Hey Guys, look out this window!
storm8 Employee2: ... What are all those coffins doing in the street? #iphone
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We should have a #Poppycock tag! #iphone
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"Is everybody having a bully day?"
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[talkamongstyourselves.freeforums.org]
For there are often times threads evolve from one simple joke or statement into something... wonderous... #iphone
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@Hardcore: Did someone say shenanigans? #iphone
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The silliest excuse I heard in a long time AND an inverted proverb. Fool me twice shame on Bush. #iphone
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Maybe they used some virus/illegal software as the basis for their software as they were so poor at programming it themselves?
Maybe they outsourced to teenage hackers?
Maybe they're just complete idiots, who managed to program their software to do this by complete chance? #iphone
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I'll admit, I don't know 'technology', but that's possible, right? #iphone
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hell, how about 1000 that are useful?
ugh. this isn't a "PRO" when listing iphone uses. its a complete negative. To think that Apple actually screens these shitty Apps for "quality" makes me laugh. #apple
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real games should then be put on an official game store and seperated from ibeer and phone fart 5.
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A lot of the games on the iPod touch feels more like a "solid gaming experience" than a lot of the crap for the DS and PSP. While there's no Final Fantasy, Zelda, Ratchet & Clank or Metroid for it, there are quite a few quality games and more coming at a production value that I've never seen on a phone or MP3 player before... if the droid gets the same level of quality games I say we should see coverage of that as well.... but so far I have not seen anything on the N95 that makes me feel like it's doubling as a gaming device.
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Mac desktops/laptops= "Wheres all the software?! this lack of support sucks!!"
Apple; When something becomes so much a part of pop culture, it becomes popular to hate.
See also: Windows, Ed hardy crap, Reality television, and Miley Cyrus. #apple
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...A fair bit...
...Over Nine Thousand? #apple
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...Over Nine Thousand.
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That's what my App-Scouter says too.. #apple
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... Over Nine Thousand.
(how come no one else is in on this? We must be the only cool kids left on Kotaku.) #apple
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But the general scorn lead to me a great a fear of using any number above 8,999 #apple