First Apple-Certified iOS Controller Only Supports Five Games

[Headdrivehardscrew]

It cost me $1.24 to hook up my PS3 controller to my Android Phone. It would have cost me $0.00 if I had decided to just root the phone instead and use it as a bluetooth connection. I fell sorry for anyone that is silly enough to actually buy one of these things.

This.

You know, I enjoyed almost five years of iWhatever joy, but I feel like I've been battling my own iDevices for basic functionality over and over again, for at least ten years. Apple gave me grey hair, pimples and a stomach irritation.

With every new iteration of the iOS, we got a bunch of necessary and much needed fixes, but, as with their pussylicious computer OS, they kept breaking things that really didn't need any breaking.

Let's face the facts: Apple really doesn't like to pay anyone else for... anything, really. They seem to hate having to put up with paying for licenses of established, good technology. Just about all my wireless, bluetooth and browsing needs on iPhone I do with third party software Apple, more often than not, actually banned and kicked off their App Store.

Experiencing Android after five years of iOS feels like total, utter, mindblowing freedom. It feels like a walk in the park, bare feet touching the grass. iOS wasn't just a jail, it was the computing equivalent of being buried alive.

I am very, very disappointed in Apple. They made my life easier in the days before/of Windows 95. They made some of the most iconic and sturdiest little computer box slaves back in the days. Then things got colourful, people got excited and everything turned to shiny shit.

Are we really that shallow?

 

[Gearhead mk2]

Apple made an overpriced product that looks sleek and awesome but is basically useless unless you're some techy douchebag who wants to by it just to look cool.

In other news, the sky is blue, the sea is wet, and David Cameron's an asshole.

Sorry to interrupt you Apple/Cameron bashing but Apple did not _make_ this controller, they just put their sticker on it.



Rather ceck out this cool multi-platform-open-source bluetooth controller with a keyboard:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1703567677/icontrolpad-2-the-open-source-controller

Huh. That actually does look like a pretty cool peice of kit. Of course, it's not gonna actually get made because that would make the gaming companies lose profit from controller sales, and the executives need that swimming pool of diamonds. And sorry about my earlier anti-Apple remark, I probably should have researched it a bit more.

 

[Yopaz]

Apple made an overpriced product that looks sleek and awesome but is basically useless unless you're some techy douchebag who wants to by it just to look cool.

In other news, the sky is blue, the sea is wet, and David Cameron's an asshole.

Sorry to interrupt you Apple/Cameron bashing but Apple did not _make_ this controller, they just put their sticker on it.



Rather ceck out this cool multi-platform-open-source bluetooth controller with a keyboard:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1703567677/icontrolpad-2-the-open-source-controller

That controller is pretty much the only thing that could make me get a new phone. I currently got a full keyboard on my phone and I don't want to get a phone without one. I hope it gets funded.

 

[BloodRed Pixel]

Apple made an overpriced product that looks sleek and awesome but is basically useless unless you're some techy douchebag who wants to by it just to look cool.

In other news, the sky is blue, the sea is wet, and David Cameron's an asshole.

Sorry to interrupt you Apple/Cameron bashing but Apple did not _make_ this controller, they just put their sticker on it.



Rather ceck out this cool multi-platform-open-source bluetooth controller with a keyboard:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1703567677/icontrolpad-2-the-open-source-controller

Huh. That actually does look like a pretty cool peice of kit. Of course, it's not gonna actually get made because that would make the gaming companies lose profit from controller sales, and the executives need that swimming pool of diamonds. And sorry about my earlier anti-Apple remark, I probably should have researched it a bit more.

It's not about bashing Apple or not. But they need to be bashed for their actual screw up.
As for Cameron - one said once the made a deal with the devil: he will make Cameron's movies more and more successfull in exchange for his sanity... or was that Lucas?
Cheers!