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What the heck does that even mean?]]>Dec 23rd 2008 9:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/Dec 23rd 2008 9:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/Dec 23rd 2008 9:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/Dec 23rd 2008 9:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/Dec 23rd 2008 12:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/Dec 23rd 2008 1:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/Dec 24th 2008 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/Dec 23rd 2008 9:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/Dec 23rd 2008 9:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/Dec 23rd 2008 9:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/Dec 23rd 2008 9:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/
This platform is RIPE for touch screen board games - with multiplayer online - but thus far, Apple hasn't made a serious attempt to offer good "pick up and play" games.

As for the attachment above...why doesn't apple release a add on like that with a d-pad, action buttons and A EXTENDED LIFE BATTERY PACK like the one's engadget always features?

I KNOW people would buy it. The iphone apps I see on Cydia and Installer are actually not bad at all, but no one is supporting them. At the very least iPhone can run games better than the Nokia N85 ( i.e. Reset Generation).]]>Dec 23rd 2008 9:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/You know Apple doesn't make the games, right?]]>Dec 23rd 2008 9:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/Dec 23rd 2008 10:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/Dec 23rd 2008 11:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/Dec 23rd 2008 1:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/Dec 23rd 2008 9:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/
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Can't see it.]]>Dec 23rd 2008 9:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/
Oh right, Halo.. That's definitely something for 'hardcore' gamers.

Oh wait, that's right... a) it can be done on the iPhone pretty easilly b) its not compelling for anyone over the age of 12.]]>Dec 23rd 2008 10:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/
Of course, what's really amusing are the people who think that enjoying video games precludes physical activities. It is actually possible to do both and, hey, adults do it too which is why the target gamer audience is 18-35 year old men.

Maybe they were too busy wrestling bears or doing other manly stuff to notice this. It's either that or gross stupidity.
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Of course, I believe there would need to be SOME kind of support from Apples end to make a device like that work well.

The biggest problem I see with an add-on device like that is that if a game supported that "peripheral" it's likely that it would be required to play the game and I don't see Apple jumping on board with something that would ultimately limit the amount of sales for a particular app.]]>Dec 23rd 2008 2:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/Dec 23rd 2008 9:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/Dec 23rd 2008 9:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/Dec 23rd 2008 11:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/
Can't wait, myself.]]>Dec 23rd 2008 3:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/
Almost as bad as http://www.shop4tech.com/photos/item-7115-1-500.jpg

...almost.]]>Dec 23rd 2008 9:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/
they'd never sell those as a bundle]]>Dec 23rd 2008 9:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/Dec 23rd 2008 9:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/Dec 23rd 2008 10:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/Dec 23rd 2008 9:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/Dec 23rd 2008 9:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/Dec 23rd 2008 9:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/Dec 23rd 2008 9:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/Dec 23rd 2008 10:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/
duhh, the iphone can fly! you didn't know that?]]>Dec 23rd 2008 10:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/
iphone games are awesome]]>Dec 23rd 2008 9:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/

The Official Guide to Avoiding Low Rankings on Engadget

1) Don't talk about Apple in any way positive, even if the praise is warranted and based on statistics, popular opinion, and actual sales.

2) Don't mention the iPhone in any Engadget post about a touchscreen phone, because as everyone knows, it is absolutely positively impossible that another company could be making a touchscreen phone because of Apple.

3) Don't suggest that Apple has innovated anything, because someone can always find an obscure company in Romania that did it first.

4) Don't suggest that a person might be a Microsoft Fanboy, because this is impossible, even if the aforementioned person has an Xbox, Zune, PC with Vista and every version of Windows minted in gold and platinum and a Bill Gates poster above the bed.

5) Never talk about "buying" a pre-built computer, unless you are discussing an article about a feud between Apple and a PC company like Dell. If it comes to this, you must choose the side of Dell, even if you never plan on buying a Dell for the rest of your natural life.]]>Dec 23rd 2008 9:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/You play your iPhone more than your 360?

Your not much of a gamer, are you?]]>Dec 23rd 2008 9:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/I meant You're, not "your".]]>Dec 23rd 2008 9:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/
New memo: Don't make up crap to make it look as if Apple is the poor ickle company with thick glasses that gets beaten up by the the big kids.]]>Dec 23rd 2008 9:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/
1. Apple has amazing product designs.

2. iPhone is a phone with some nice features and some old ones.

3. Apple has innovated a snotty fan base.

4. Microsoft has many fanboys, but compared to the ratio of Apple users, Apple has a lot of fanboys.

5. I like the DELL XPS One pre-built computer, and might buy it sometime in my, natural life, whatever that means!


Let us see if I will get low ranked...]]>Dec 23rd 2008 10:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/
1) Whine like Paul Chapel does.]]>Dec 23rd 2008 11:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/
on this site, most of the time apple is the kid who gets beat up all the time by the commenters. he's not really making crap up, its mostly true with some exageration at an attempt at humor.]]>Dec 23rd 2008 11:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/
I think the anti-Apple goons are wining though with their new 'Low Rank' weapon, yea!.]]>Dec 23rd 2008 11:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/Dec 25th 2008 9:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/Dec 23rd 2008 9:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/
Either that is a brilliant joke; or you need a new spell check, PRONTO.]]>Dec 23rd 2008 10:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/Dec 23rd 2008 10:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/Dec 23rd 2008 10:09AM