It's also interesting that Nintendo and Apple often innovate with similar technologies. The central innovations of the DS and wii -- touchscreen and motion con

It's also interesting that Nintendo and Apple often innovate with similar technologies. The central innovations of the DS and wii -- touchscreen and motion controls respectively -- would up being tentpoles of the iPhone. Four years later and Nintendo's been first to mass market with a 3D device and the central innovation for the wii 2/HD appears to be advanced haptics, something we've seen a number of Apple patent applications for. It will be interesting to see if Apple again catches the rest of the phone industry napping with their implementations of these technologies.