Carmack: AppStore is Doomed!
We've mentioned John Carmack at least a couple of times before. The ID founder and famed developer of Doom and Quake seems to have a special place in his heart for Apple and Apple gaming (even if Sir Steve doesn't return that love).
Posting on Slashdot (via Apple Insider), Carmack tells of rapidly pulling the trigger on his dev application, and then drops this bomb about AppStore:
The iTunes distribution channel is really a more important aspect than a lot of people understand. The ability to distribute larger applications than the over-the-air limits and effectively market your title with more than a dozen character deck name, combined with the reasonable income split make this look like a very interesting market. This type of developer / customer interaction is probably the wave of the future for mobile devices, it will be interesting to see how quickly the other players can react. Based on our experiences with the carriers, I am betting not very quickly.
Wow, anti-carrier combo bonus points! So, how soon will we see a tilt and tap FPS (first person shooter)? And anyone else think Carmack will sneak an El Jobso boss into iDoom?
Editor-in-Chief of iMore, Executive Producer at Mobile Nations, co-host of Iterate and ZEN and TECH, cook, grappler, photon wrangler.
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