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Will Games Developed For The iPod Touch Be Considered Duplicating Functionality?

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If Apple takes on the gaming market and develops a few of their own in-house games, you can bet your bottom dollar that they will be pushed front and center and other games shoved to the back.

I am the biggest anti-Apple fanboi in existence, but I don't see the connection here. All of Apple's marketing for the iPhone and iTouch is about third-party apps. There is a huge Apple billboard outside my office advertising a bunch of third-party games for the iTouch. So if they start banning third-party games, this will be an unprecedented reversal in their current policy.

As an aside, I am looking forward to the day when I can get AdBlock in real life.

We all know that Apple doesn't follow their own policies pertaining to the Apple Store very well. That is why this could possibly be an issue if Apple seriously enters the gaming market to compete with the likes of the DS (which many bloggers are speculating).

Apple has set a precedent for itself, apps that duplicate, or in some cases have an icon that simply looks like an Apple icon have been and will be denied.

It is logical to assume that based off of Apple's history, the same will happen for games IF they choose to enter the gaming market seriously and/or have certain games installed by default.

I think much more likely would be that Apple would simply release a game free on the App Store and promote the hell out of it. I mean, they _could_ have bundled the iTunes Remote app with the phone, but they didn't, because it doesn't really fit in with the character of the phone. It seems like they're only including by default apps that they think everyone would want.

I think that would be the most likely scenario. But depending on how focused Apple is on gaming for the iPod Touch, it could go both ways.

Apple wants to hire one person and this means game devs are going to be screwed? I don't think so - Apple doesn't have to hire anyone in order to make money on each and every app sold in the store - why bother trying to put out their own games?

If anything this could be a move to better support game specific functionality and controls.

Apple wants to make some games, and that's where you go with it? There's a story there even without the anti-Apple trolling.

Has Apple rejected any poker games for similarity to their own 'Texas Hold'em' (still $4.99)?

No, but that game is not by default installed. Which this post would be assuming if Apple chose to turn the touch into a gaming device.

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