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    Carmack: Working With Apple Is a Rollercoaster Ride

    iPhone Games Caught Stealing Phone Numbers?

    Apple Celebrates More Than 100K Apps On iTunes

    Doom Classic Now on iPhone

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    Image of Bouchart Bouchart
    11/06/09

    In reply to Carmack: Working With Apple Is a Rollercoaster Ride
    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
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    Image of Xagest Xagest
    11/06/09

    In reply to iPhone Games Caught Stealing Phone Numbers?
    Ha! So Apple products do get spyware... #iphone
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    11/06/09

    @Xagest: all it took was a platform with a respectable piece of marketshare... their phone. #iphone
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    Image of FP_slomo788 FP_slomo788
    11/06/09

    In reply to Carmack: Working With Apple Is a Rollercoaster Ride
    "Cool" people don't play video games. That's for lame nerds. We'll take their money too though.

    What's so hard to understand? #johncarmack
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    Image of Project_J187 Project_J187
    11/06/09

    In reply to iPhone Games Caught Stealing Phone Numbers?
    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
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    Image of RockyRan RockyRan
    11/06/09

    In reply to iPhone Games Caught Stealing Phone Numbers?
    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?

    *incoherent grumbling* #iphone
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    Image of Odin Odin
    11/06/09

    In reply to iPhone Games Caught Stealing Phone Numbers?
    Aren't Apples verification processes supposed to catch crap like this? Me thinks someone there was slacking when they let this slip through. #iphone
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    Image of Spoony Bard Spoony Bard
    11/06/09

    In reply to iPhone Games Caught Stealing Phone Numbers?
    Aww crap. I have those games on my iPhone.

    Damn you, storm8! Damn you to the depths of Hades! #iphone
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    Image of Cojo21 Cojo21
    11/06/09

    @Spoony Bard: Ban 'em! Ban 'em! #iphone
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    Image of MechaTama31 MechaTama31
    11/06/09

    @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
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    Image of Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair) Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair)
    11/06/09

    @MechaTama31:

    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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    Image of houser houser
    11/06/09

    @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
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    Image of Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair) Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair)
    11/06/09

    In reply to iPhone Games Caught Stealing Phone Numbers?
    This Michael Turner chap seems to be awesome to be still using the term "Poppycock".

    We should have a #Poppycock tag! #iphone
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    Image of hot_heart hot_heart
    11/06/09

    @Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair): Balderdash! #iphone
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    Image of Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair) Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair)
    11/06/09

    @hot_heart: My Word, you Rapscallion ! #iphone
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    Image of ThursdayNext ThursdayNext
    11/06/09

    @Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair): I can't believe cheek of these bounders! #iphone
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    Image of D-K, a burning sensation D-K, a burning sensation
    11/06/09

    @ThursdayNext: Bosh! Flimshaw!

    "Is everybody having a bully day?"
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    Edited by D-K, a burning sensation at 11/06/09 4:23 AM D-K, a burning sensation was starred D-K, a burning sensation was unstarred
    Image of Scuzgob Scuzgob
    11/06/09

    @D-K, a burning sensation: Scallywag! #iphone
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    Image of Hardcore Hardcore
    11/06/09

    @Scuzgob: Shenanigans! #iphone
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    Image of Bobzination11 Bobzination11
    11/06/09

    @Scuzgob: oh fiddlesticks, i think a silly scoundrel has stolen my numbah 8( #iphone
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    Image of staySICK staySICK
    11/06/09

    @Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair): Screw nominating comments, can I nominate a whole thread? #iphone
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    Image of Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair) Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair)
    11/06/09

    @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
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    Image of linkthe2nd linkthe2nd
    11/06/09

    @D-K, a burning sensation: Thank god we live in this time. #iphone
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    Image of (Starman) Cookie_Monster (Starman) Cookie_Monster
    11/06/09


    @Hardcore: Did someone say shenanigans? #iphone
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    Image of Asbestos_Underwear Asbestos_Underwear
    11/06/09

    In reply to iPhone Games Caught Stealing Phone Numbers?
    It's not a feature, it's a bug!

    The silliest excuse I heard in a long time AND an inverted proverb. Fool me twice shame on Bush. #iphone
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    Image of Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair) Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair)
    11/06/09

    @Asbestos_Underwear: Now now, let's give them the benefit of the doubt here...

    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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    Image of hot_heart hot_heart
    11/06/09

    @Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair): MAYBE SOMEONE HACKED THEIR MAINFRAME AND REROUTED ALL THEIR FIREWALLS THROUGH THE GIGACHIP.

    I'll admit, I don't know 'technology', but that's possible, right? #iphone
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    Image of BGSS BGSS
    11/06/09

    @hot_heart: It's very possible, gigachips have poor security. #iphone
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    Image of ThatGuyOverThere ThatGuyOverThere
    11/06/09

    @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
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    Image of Unrealbsl Unrealbsl
    11/06/09

    @ThatGuyOverThere: +1 for Hackers reference!! #iphone
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    Image of FeatherNET - Live in Canada FeatherNET - Live in Canada
    11/06/09

    @hot_heart: Oh god, you're awesome. +1 #iphone
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    Image of Noodle-Works Noodle-Works
    11/04/09

    In reply to Apple Celebrates More Than 100K Apps On iTunes
    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
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    Image of shouryuuken shouryuuken
    11/04/09

    In reply to Apple Celebrates More Than 100K Apps On iTunes
    apple needs to have a group of people who have worked in the game industry to administer quality control.

    real games should then be put on an official game store and seperated from ibeer and phone fart 5.
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    Edited by shouryuuken at 11/04/09 10:32 AM shouryuuken was starred shouryuuken was unstarred
    Image of mpar mpar
    11/04/09

    @shouryuuken: Ha phone fart 5 that is so last month, right now I'm enjoying phone fart X. #apple
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    11/04/09

    @mpar: phone fart 6 was just too laggy for me.. im still "playing" phone burp though.. version 4.5 is amazing. #apple
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    Image of RoboticSpacePenguin RoboticSpacePenguin
    11/04/09

    In reply to Apple Celebrates More Than 100K Apps On iTunes
    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
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    Image of toadstoolporridge toadstoolporridge
    11/04/09

    @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
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    Image of Pyrefly Pyrefly
    11/04/09

    In reply to Apple Celebrates More Than 100K Apps On iTunes
    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
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    Image of The Whaleman The Whaleman
    11/04/09

    @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.
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    Image of StagnatedLives StagnatedLives
    11/04/09

    In reply to Apple Celebrates More Than 100K Apps On iTunes
    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
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    Image of Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair) Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair)
    11/04/09

    In reply to Apple Celebrates More Than 100K Apps On iTunes
    So... the number of apps is...

    ...A fair bit...

    ...Over Nine Thousand? #apple
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    11/04/09

    @Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair): Why yes, I believe it is.... Over Nine Thousand. #apple
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    Image of Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair) Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair)
    11/04/09

    @Daniel @ playreadwrite.blogspot.com: I was just checking my math that it was...

    ...Over Nine Thousand.
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    Edited by Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair) at 11/04/09 10:04 AM Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair) was starred Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair) was unstarred
    Image of Mr. Tambourine Man Mr. Tambourine Man
    11/04/09

    @Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair):
    That's what my App-Scouter says too.. #apple
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    Image of Daniel @ playreadwrite.blogspot.com Daniel @ playreadwrite.blogspot.com
    11/04/09

    @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
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    11/04/09

    @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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