Apple is poised to eat the games market now. "Game developers seem likely to hop on the Apple cart, since the iPhone and its cousin the iPod Touch are both tremendously popular and fairly powerful mobile computers... If enough outside developers flock to the iPhone and iPod Touch as game platforms and start releasing cool, exclusive titles for the devices, gamers will follow. When the CEO of Electronic Arts gets onstage with Steve Jobs and trumpets the fact that his company is working on an iPhone version of Spore, one of the most anticipated games of all time, well, it's hard not to wonder if the handheld game industry is about to get a lot more interesting."Rico says he has seen this before; Apple ate word processors (remember Wang?), page layout systems (remember those quarter-million dollar boxes?), and any number of other hardware and software niches. Why not games?
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