http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/ Engadget Comments for Apple previews Game Center social gaming platform for iPhone OS 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/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/Apr 8th 2010 1:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/
LOL, I asked for this a few days ago thinking it was a long shot, but I'm pleasantly surprised. Oh, who am I kidding, this freaking ROCKS!

Bye, bye, Windows Phone. ]]>Apr 8th 2010 1:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/yeah cos MS never copies apple!!! ]]>Apr 8th 2010 1:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/Apr 8th 2010 1:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/
I wasn't aware Microsoft had created, invented, or even implemented an online service such as this on their mobile phone.

This is a game changer. Get it?]]>Apr 8th 2010 1:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/
No, it's not. At ALL. ]]>Apr 8th 2010 1:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/
But remember When Apple does it, it's ok, because Steve told them it was better.]]>Apr 8th 2010 1:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/
Nah, more like a copy of N-Gage.

Hopefully it'll suck less though.]]>Apr 8th 2010 1:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/
The ironic thing here is that Apple will probably have Game Center out before the first Windows Phone.]]>Apr 8th 2010 1:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/Apr 8th 2010 2:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/
Apple fanboys creaming themselves over what MS has been doing for ages. "Innovation" my ass.]]>Apr 8th 2010 2:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/
Come to think of it, OS 4 has folders now, so you can categorize your apps, like a hub.]]>Apr 8th 2010 2:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/
I'm stoked. This should be just as good as XBox Live considering the high quality games available on the iPhone/iPod Touch. I mean, who doesn't spend hours and hours trying to unlock every achievement on today's current offerings of games through iTunes?

What a joke. I'm still waiting for ONE game on my iPod Touch that I would play for more than a few hours.]]>Apr 8th 2010 2:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/
What does that mean? Does that mean MSFT will have copied Apple since Apples handsets have it first?]]>Apr 8th 2010 2:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/You mean other then the fact that Microsoft announced they were porting Xbox Live to Windows Phone 7 and this is extremely similar?

And I didn't say Microsoft never copies or takes inspiration, it just that I have always said it goes both ways and Apple fanbois laugh at it.

This isn't a ground breaking idea. This is a me too idea. Neither products are released yet and Apple has and does have plenty of time to implement this just announced feature before iPhone OS 4 comes out in the summer. No, Apple felt they needed this feature to help keep people in the iPhone ecosystem.

This is the problem with Microsoft announcing everything months before, but in all honesty they didn't have an alternative as everyone expected them to announce something or conclude their mobile devision dead.]]>Apr 8th 2010 2:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/
Theyll need the headstart!!!]]>Apr 8th 2010 2:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/I hope MSFT sues Apple over this.....they proly cant, but itd be funny]]>Apr 8th 2010 2:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/
EXACTLY MY THOUGHTS LOL]]>Apr 8th 2010 2:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/Dude, what does OS4 have that MSFT didnt announce on WP7?]]>Apr 8th 2010 2:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/
Multitasking.]]>Apr 8th 2010 2:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/
Multitasking. Wallpapers.]]>Apr 8th 2010 2:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/Apr 8th 2010 2:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/
Neither has Apple... Microsoft announced it first, but that doesn't matter cuz Steve "McJesus" Jobs said that his is better and everyone else sucks. That GD Parasite (Apple) of a company needs to just go beat-off in a corner and die!]]>Apr 8th 2010 2:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/
Makes sense Apple would copy something awesome like XBL.]]>Apr 8th 2010 2:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/
Wrong, WP7 has better multitasking since more APIs can be run at all times and full processes can be kept running.]]>Apr 8th 2010 2:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/And the troll arrives.]]>Apr 8th 2010 2:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/It's like they watched Microsoft's every move for the past 3 months.]]>Apr 8th 2010 3:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/
Wow, looks like the unprecedented success of the iPad, and the fact that the iPhone will now have all the things the whiners here complained it didn't have has gotten the anti Apple mob all riled up!
]]>Apr 8th 2010 3:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/
"more APIs can be run at all times"

You have no idea what you're talking about. Clearly you don't even know what an API is.


As for this copying thing, yes Microsoft was first to announce a game network for a phone, but they did not invent the idea of a gaming network. Apple did not invent the idea either but they will be the first to market with it. Everyone's coping everyone else, that's how technology evolves.]]>Apr 8th 2010 4:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/
they didn't copy... They came out with this publicly before Microsoft. Thats why they previewed it early, it makes MS look like the bad guy. Steve is very strategic! :-D]]>Apr 8th 2010 4:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/Apr 8th 2010 5:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/Apr 8th 2010 5:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/
"All of Apple's idea are original"

im about to shit bricks into the 477th dimension...]]>Jun 12th 2010 2:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/Apr 8th 2010 1:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/Apr 8th 2010 1:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/
This isn't meant to win people over since Apple doesn't sell a console. It's just meant to make gaming better for people with Apple devices.]]>Apr 8th 2010 4:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/Apr 8th 2010 8:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/May 19th 2010 6:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/Apr 8th 2010 1:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/
THAT MIGHT BE AVAILABLE HERE IN CALIFORNIA SOON! LOL]]>Apr 8th 2010 2:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/Apr 8th 2010 1:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/
Well, except for the fact that the iPhone OS has copy & paste and mulit-tasking, unlike the Windows Phone but yeah, a total rip-off. I'm sure they threw this Game Center together in the few weeks since Microsoft announced Xbox Live on the Windows Phone.]]>Apr 8th 2010 1:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/Apr 8th 2010 1:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/
None of this "exists" either. So I take it you wont be too angry if Palm and Android does this too? Maybe use the same name?]]>Apr 8th 2010 2:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/
Sounds like iHaters are a little butthurt that Apple beat them to the punch and now they won't be able prance around talking about their Live features on their Windows phone. It's ok, I'm sure you'll come up with some arbitrary reason why iPhone still suxxors or you could continue to use your old played out Lulz fart apps, copy&paste, and multitasking hate that no longer has any relevance other than getting a quick and easy Highest Ranked label from the drones. I look forward to being down-ranked into oblivion as it only proves my point. ]]>Apr 8th 2010 3:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/
Your post is a blatant rip-off of the first post. Oh the horror!]]>Apr 8th 2010 4:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/
Thank you!

WinPho7 has an Xbox Icon and a simulated gaming demo.

Moving along..]]>Apr 8th 2010 6:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/Apr 8th 2010 1:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/Apr 8th 2010 1:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-previews-game-center-social-gaming-platform-for-iphone-os/Apr 8th 2010 1:54PM