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I was thinking about this a week ago while contemplating their gaming moves with AppleTV. I think Apple wants to focus their own design energy on the broadest

I was thinking about this a week ago while contemplating their gaming moves with AppleTV. I think Apple wants to focus their own design energy on the broadest customer base, which means casual gamers. Based on that, it makes sense that they would basically deliver their rendition of the Wii-mote. It's interesting to compare it to the FireTV remote as well. Honestly, there's a lot of "hard core game" controllers out there and they all fit in the mold of the XBox/Playstation dual-stick model. It's a smaller market, and people tend to be brand loyal and also generally not fans of Apple. So I think it makes a lot of sense for them to stay out of that racket and leave it to third parties.

alttab 11y ago
This puts a lot of onus on the game developers to provide a good consumer experience. The hallmarks of great Apple products is when they get in there and say "no, you want it this way don't you?" This seems like capitulation or a punt more than anything. What have they done for game developers? Almost nothing it seems. If anything, they've made it harder to reach Apple customers by fragmenting the experience across 3 form factors, with the same 70/30 revenue model. There doesn't seem to be any true rational why you would need an AppleTV, that another cheaper product doesn't do better, or something many people already have doesn't already do.
- pjmlp 11y ago
  Almost anyone can get into the mobile stores. It is a real pain to get into the console market.
- simonh 11y ago
  >... If anything, they've made it harder to reach Apple customers by fragmenting the experience across 3 form factors Microsoft and Sony both sell tablets, phones, desktops and laptops as well as Apple. Of the three who's OS, development tools, deployment and hardware lineup seems most coherent to you? > ...There doesn't seem to be any true rational why you would need an AppleTV, that another cheaper product doesn't do better, or something many people already have doesn't already do. I don't think there's ever been a single Apple product ever released that people didn't say the exact same thing about.

alttab 11y ago

This puts a lot of onus on the game developers to provide a good consumer experience. The hallmarks of great Apple products is when they get in there and say "no, you want it this way don't you?" This seems like capitulation or a punt more than anything. What have they done for game developers? Almost nothing it seems. If anything, they've made it harder to reach Apple customers by fragmenting the experience across 3 form factors, with the same 70/30 revenue model. There doesn't seem to be any true rational why you would need an AppleTV, that another cheaper product doesn't do better, or something many people already have doesn't already do.

pjmlp 11y ago
Almost anyone can get into the mobile stores. It is a real pain to get into the console market.
simonh 11y ago
>... If anything, they've made it harder to reach Apple customers by fragmenting the experience across 3 form factors Microsoft and Sony both sell tablets, phones, desktops and laptops as well as Apple. Of the three who's OS, development tools, deployment and hardware lineup seems most coherent to you? > ...There doesn't seem to be any true rational why you would need an AppleTV, that another cheaper product doesn't do better, or something many people already have doesn't already do. I don't think there's ever been a single Apple product ever released that people didn't say the exact same thing about.