I agree with the author's distaste with Apple's pulling of the game. But that's about the only part of the article that I don't find inane.
* "If I'm a scammer for charging $399.99 for a stupid app, Apple is a scammer for charging a starting price of $500 for a sub par netbook" is just bad, empty logic. Ranting about the iPad at all is a pointless tangent.
* "A PHONE IS NOT A GENERIC GAMING PLATFORM. IT WORKS FOR SOME GAMES, BUT NOT EVERYTHING. I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH. JUST BECAUSE SOMETHING HAS THE ABILITY TO RUN GAMES THAT DOESN'T MEAN EVERY GAME SHOULD BE MADE FOR IT." Thank you, sir, but I and other gamers will decide what we think are gaming platforms, no matter how many capital letters you throw at us. Hint: PCs were supposed to be business machines.
It's an unfocused, juvenile hissy fit, which is too bad because it started with a valid grievance.
Im not quite sure what you were watching or reading... but in the video i watched, in the link above, he actually says some games cant be played on a touch screen. He didn't say that it wasn't a gaming platform. Besides, it's just his opinion lol
"I and other gamers will decide what we think are gaming platforms"
He's not suggesting that it isn't a gaming platform - he's just saying that not every game can be experienced as well as it potentially could on that device.
I would argue that closing the post with a caps-lock'd rant that kicks off with "A PHONE IS NOT A GENERIC GAMING PLATFORM" is implicitly saying a little bit more than just "not every game works on phones".
Perhaps it's a bit of reading between the lines, but the second comment to the post (on the blog itself, not here) reads "THANK YOU! THE iPHONE/iPOD IS NOT A GAMING DEVICE!", so I don't think I'm alone in reading that rant and walking away with the thought that the author is bitter about phones as a gaming platform, beyond just what his words literally say.
If that reading is incorrect, then I take solace in the fact that at least one other person was dumb enough to read it as I did.
It seems that so many people are glad for it when they see it, that it should really just be a web-browser feature. It'd be used somewhere around as often as "Undo Closed Tab", so it's justifiable.
Perhaps we can get the default browser stylesheet changed from 1994-black-Times-new-roman-100%-width-on-white? Then turning this on would be as simple as pressing the "disable styles" hotkey in whatever browser you're in.
I think it does cleverness to do with figuring out what's content, what's site headings, adverts etc. but yes there should be some equivalent thing in browsers if only for accessibility reasons.
* "If I'm a scammer for charging $399.99 for a stupid app, Apple is a scammer for charging a starting price of $500 for a sub par netbook" is just bad, empty logic. Ranting about the iPad at all is a pointless tangent.
* "A PHONE IS NOT A GENERIC GAMING PLATFORM. IT WORKS FOR SOME GAMES, BUT NOT EVERYTHING. I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH. JUST BECAUSE SOMETHING HAS THE ABILITY TO RUN GAMES THAT DOESN'T MEAN EVERY GAME SHOULD BE MADE FOR IT." Thank you, sir, but I and other gamers will decide what we think are gaming platforms, no matter how many capital letters you throw at us. Hint: PCs were supposed to be business machines.
It's an unfocused, juvenile hissy fit, which is too bad because it started with a valid grievance.