[Kde-games-devel] The iPhenomenon

[Eugene Trounev]

Switch.






But seriously, unless KDE makes a real effort here everything we do will
become irrelevant in about 3-4 years from now.
Unfortunately we will not make an effort :( Simply because the majority of
our devs don't see it comming.
Why, just this spring I was at tokamak (plasma development sprint ) and
spoke to everyone about touch interface. The response I got was "not
happening" :(
So switch to iPad development, or to Android.
Oh, and I'm typing this on my new Nexus One :)


Well I'm exaggerating of course :p but we really have to think about the
future now, before it's too late.

On Aug 12, 2010 9:50 PM, "Ian Wadham" <iandw.au at gmail.com> wrote:
> A year or two ago my wife bought an iPhone, one of several mobile phones
> she has owned, including a high-end Nokia previously, but the iPhone was
> the first on which she was able to use all the functions, or at least
willing
> to make the effort. On the iPhone she plays Sudoku, color Sudoku (using
> colors instead of numbers), Mahjongg solitaire (in 3-D) and Whirlyword
> (a game to extract 3-6 letter words from 6 randomized letters).
>
> Recently, in June, she went out and bought an iPad, on the first day of
> availability in Australia. Now she has given up using KDE/Linux. She
> does all of her browsing, gmailing and game-playing on one iBox or the
> other and is starting to manage photos on the iPad. She even reads
> books on the iPad. This is a woman in her sixties we are talking about!
>
> Yesterday came the killer ... We have been discussing Palapeli on this
> list, but when our four-year old grandson was round at our house, she
> brought up this iApp called Tozzle and he was entranced ...
>
> http://appshopper.com/games/tozzle-toddlers-favorite-puzzle
>
> It's not the same game as Palapeli ... In Tozzle you just have to fit
shapes
> into holes, but the quality of the graphics, animations and sound effects
> is amazing! Watch a two-year old playing it on Youtube ...
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1GNMKtkHxA
>
> One key to the iPhenomenon and its ease of use is the touch-screen.
> I wonder when/whether they are supported in KDE and when/whether
> we will have touch-screen laptops. The iPad has a few limitations ...
> no USB port, difficult to print anything and it is even less flexible than
> Linuxes at handling Microsoft-oriented and other proprietary-format
> attachments received on emails. I get a couple of forwards per week
> from my wife asking me to play the attachments.
>
> What I am wondering is whether KDE Games will ever be able to catch
> up or keep up with this kind of stuff? Or should I switch to writing
iApps?
>
> All the best, Ian W.
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