Sure the iPhone can play games but it will never really compete with the Nintendo DS, and now Apple wants to charge for free applications too.
By: Kristin Wright
Apple's iPhone is a telephone, and a very advanced mobile telephone. That along with adding some great web features and organizer features make it a wonderful tool for most any business person on the go. However, to say that it could ever compete with any hand held gaming system, especially the Nintendo DS is fairly unreasonable.
Now of course the iPhone can play some games and the touch screen is a decent platform for playing many games, but then again the Nintendo DS is built to do only one thing; play games. Furthermore, it also utilizes a touch screen. Combine that with the strength of the dual screen allowing the game to either split the screen into two separate sections or one continued larger screen makes the DS the one to beat.
No, Apple created the iPhone with the idea that it would be a tool for a person to be organized, and able to be online at any moment, (well any moment that they can connect to the AT&T Network). Consequently, this being said, it is nice to finally seeing some developers come out with some games for the iPhone. There have been games for mobile phones as long as there have been mobile phones, mostly to waste time between appointments.
Now reports are that Apple will be allowing developers to submit more than one version of their applications to the App Store, which will ship as part of the iPhone Software v2.0. For instance, the full featured version would be available for a price while a lite version would be available as a free trial download, just to get the iPhone users interested enough to buy the full featured version.
It appears that Apple is moving into the arena of selling iPhone apps instead of providing them as part of the original cost of the pricey iPhone. Of course most understand that Apple would enjoy a 30 percent share of the profits from each of the applications that are sold through service, and the developers would then make their share.
This doesn't quite seem like much of a deal for the iPhone users, who in the past have been able to receive the App Store for free and have been able to pick and choose most applications that they wish. No it appears that the iPhone is moving more towards its little brother, the iPod and the way songs are purchased for it. However, the big question will be, "will iPhone users have to now pay a fee just to update their devices?" This might be the case if Apple goes forward with what appears to be their plan.
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