Has Apple Created the Perfect Board Game Platform? 531
andylim writes "recombu.com is running an interesting piece about how Apple has created a 'Jumanji (board game) platform.' The 9.7-inch multi-touch screen is perfect for playing board games at home, and you could use Wi-Fi or 3G to play against other people when you're on your own. What would be really interesting is if you could pair the iPad with iPhones, 'Imagine a Scrabble iPad game that used iPhones as letter holders. You could hold up your iPhone so that no one else could see your letters and when you were ready to make a word on the Scrabble iPad board, you could slide them on to the board by flicking the word tiles off your iPhone.' Now that would be cool."
Re:Cool game of scrabble? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Too Small (Score:5, Funny)
How is less than 10 inches perfect?
That's what she said.
Re:Sure thing (Score:5, Funny)
So for only $499 + $299/phone, you can play a $75 board game electronically!
$75?
Where the hell do you shop for board games?
Here, I'll lend you a decimal --> .
Not really... (Score:4, Funny)
But, seriously, implementing board games well on a computer demands a lot more than a small touch-sensitive display. Simple non-social games are easier, but they work just fine on a traditional PC.
Has Apple Created the Perfect Board Game Platform? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:(no need) (Score:4, Funny)
Let's hope it isn't cursed.
Re:Too Small (Score:3, Funny)
The best part of this post:
50% Informative
30% Underrated
20% Funny
God bless the /. crowd :)
oh it's cursed alright (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Oh no you didn't! (Score:5, Funny)
Analogy time: You can raise the tastiest pigs in the world, and cure the awesomest bacon ever known to man, but if I keep kosher, I can't eat it. See, Apple is rabbinical law, and the i~Device hardware is the bacon. Apple only wants you to eat Apple-cured bacon, which isn't made from pigs at all. It's made from hipsters in Apple's secret Cupertino rent-controlled hipster abbatoir. You can't have the regular bacon, which is unfettered hardware.
Wait... The iPad hardware is bacon, and the bacon isn't bacon, but bacon is hardware, and Apple wants you to eat kosher and...
I think you lost me. Could you try this as a car analogy?
Re:COST?!?! (Score:4, Funny)
Mod Up! We've got an A4 designer here! (Score:4, Funny)
I know its processor capabilities well.
That's interesting. I'd been given to understand that this was a proprietary processor. The only explanation I can think of is that you were actually part of the A4 or iPhone OS team.
And yet you correctly state that the iPhone OS (and the iPad version is the same) don't do multi-task/threading.
Okay, you weren't on the OS team, and you have some reading comprehension difficulties, otherwise, you wouldn't have said that, given that the GP actually went to some pains to point out the OS does do multitasking/multithreading, and he's correct. So, that leaves the A4 team.
What can you tell us about the chip?
obreply (Score:5, Funny)
No dice. Less space than Monopoly. Lame.