http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/ Engadget Comments for Apple buys a little Imagination -- 3.6 percent to be exact http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/Dec 19th 2008 9:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/Dec 19th 2008 9:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/
iPhone most definitive mobile gaming device -Not even close! But a step in the right direction? Yes.

iPhone doesn't even have a gaming library as elaborate as the other three. Apple has a long way to go!]]>Dec 19th 2008 10:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/Dec 19th 2008 11:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/Dec 19th 2008 3:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/Dec 19th 2008 9:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/Dec 19th 2008 9:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/Dec 19th 2008 9:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/
Not that I want to sell anyone an iPhone, but seriously, you feature obsessives are like Ron Paul followers - I'm starting to believe you only exist in the comment sections of websites. ]]>Dec 19th 2008 10:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/
I've done development for both BBs and the iPhone and while it's nice to be able to do fancy interfaces and whatnot on the iPhone, some of the applications i've made for BBs simply wouldn't work on a normal iPhone due to the missing "feature" of background applications.]]>Dec 19th 2008 11:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/Dec 19th 2008 5:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/Dec 19th 2008 9:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/
do iPod shuffles count as currency now?]]>Dec 19th 2008 9:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/Dec 19th 2008 9:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/Dec 19th 2008 9:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/Dec 19th 2008 10:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/Dec 19th 2008 11:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/
They're in the engineering department at Motorola. They've gone a little overboard on the ale, though.]]>Dec 19th 2008 11:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/
THE END (and the beginning of more iWaste).
http://www.apple.com/support/iphone/service/battery/]]>Dec 19th 2008 1:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/Dec 19th 2008 9:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/Dec 19th 2008 10:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/
That is precious.]]>Dec 19th 2008 10:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/Dec 19th 2008 10:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/
Last year, Microsoft bought a 1.6% stake in Facebook for $246 million, resulting in a more than $15 billion valuation for the company as a whole. This is of course far more than it was worth, but it prevented others, Google specifically, from buying the company at a bargain.

This Apple deal puts PowerVR at about $138 million, making it less likely for competitors like Sony to buy it out, leaving Apple without a graphics chip for the next generation of iPhones and iPods.]]>Dec 19th 2008 10:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/
EJ, thanks for being a grammar nazi. On blog comments, Its not too important. :P]]>Dec 19th 2008 11:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/I don't think Hustler magazines count as an investment...]]>Dec 19th 2008 1:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/Dec 19th 2008 10:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/Dec 19th 2008 10:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/
Apple is contracting out to Imagine to help develop an iPhone gaming platform.

As part of the contract, Imagine is requiring Apple to invest $5 million in stocks for the company.

Then with Imagine's help, the iPhone gaming market takes off - easily doubling or tripling the worth of the company from a highly rising stock value. So basically, that $5 million could easily become $15 - $20 million later for them.

It's a Win / Win for Apple & Imagine.]]>Dec 21st 2008 11:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/Are we in an alternate universe that doesn't discuss the world in anything but theory?]]>Dec 19th 2008 11:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/Dec 19th 2008 12:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/Dec 19th 2008 1:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/
Why just games. I can think of a handful of applications for a better video chipset from smoother video playback, to the ability to output to an external monitor at higher frame rates.]]>Dec 19th 2008 1:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/Dec 19th 2008 1:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/
And if they don't own it they can put pressure on them to sell the products at a lower price. Not to mention the fact that if other companies can purchase it as well it will increase the volume manufactured thereby reducing the cost (of R&D).]]>Dec 19th 2008 1:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/Dec 19th 2008 2:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/
iPhone platform with big games support and tablet PC functionality with all the multitouch & accelerometer awesomeness that made the iPhone what it is today.]]>Dec 19th 2008 5:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/
There are other companies providing mobile graphics, Nvidia's Tegra platform, ARM has their own graphics solution called Mali (which is very comparable to Imaginations product offering, and in some cases better).

Andrew]]>Dec 21st 2008 6:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/Dec 21st 2008 10:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/]]>Dec 21st 2008 11:48AM