Apple is one of those companies that is just so respected by so many people that they get truckloads of mail daily with suggestions about products that they should make. I myself had a vision for an Apple TV (not Apple TV, but an actual TV) which I still think would work, but hey, when you all send in enough money for me to own a relatively large portion of the company, I'll push for it.

Until then, one thing many gamers and phone hobbyists alike have been questioning is why hasn't Apple gotten into the games market. Boing Boing Gadgets goes into it, explaning how relatively simple-minded such a thing would be to do when they have a very easy road to achieve fame in portable gaming.

For a quick summary, Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch are quite capable of playing games, and indeed the previous iPod iterations have had downloadable games (albeit the control scheme was terrible for gaming and the games were just as bad). The touch-sensitive screens obviously open up quite a bit, but the lack of dedicated buttons is what throws people off.

Except that Apple isn't a portable gaming console publisher, they are a hardware company selling phones! Which means that if someone wants to put games on their phone, then they'd better figure out how to do it. There's a market for games on iPhones (since there are people with them), so it's just a matter of time before games find their way into the phones as it is.

So quit yer whining!

Boing Boing Gadgets