Unlike all other Apple events, this week’s iPhone SDK event didn’t really get my attention as much at first. I didn’t sit behind a computer during the event, keep on refreshing all the live blogging page of news media finding out what Steve was announcing. I didn’t catch any news until late at night when I get home. Mostly because I know the event won’t unleash something that I can lust over immediately or something that I can use right away, be it hardware or software.

So I was taken by surprise of how a game-changing event it was after watching the video of the event afterward! The enterprise features I am not gonna talk about because it doesn’t really affect me at all, but it certainly looks like Blackberry’s leading days are numbered. I was cheering after 3 particular demos during the events: Touch Fighter, Spore, and Super Monkey Ball! Who knew the iPhone can actually be a capable gaming machine!? Not only any games that designed for iPhone can have a wii style control method, the graphics might not be as good as PSP, but it’s above the DS as far as I can tell from the demo of Super Monkey Ball! so we can expect games for iphone will not be your regular cell phone games!

With EA and Sega already working with Apple and promising games available this year, finally Apple find a way to break down the gaming barrier of the Mac. We all know even after the Intel switch, games is still not a big thing on the Mac. Cross-platform big releases are still lack behind on the Mac compared to PC and consoles. Native versions on Mac is still rare. But now I see things could change with the iPhone platform being so attractive to game developers. Once they are familiar with developing for iPhone, given the coding and the tools are pretty much the same as developing for the Mac, you can just see developers can easily develop a Mac desktop version of their games as well! This is all exciting news! People always said iPod was the trojan horse that get people to Mac, well, I think the iPhone platform is the trojan horse and the carrot to get developers on broad to using Mac, and eventually developing for the Mac!

The most exciting news to me was Spore though – I have been waiting for Spore for like forever, and couple months ago I found out it will be release on Mac at the same time as PC, which in itself is already an awesome news~ Who knew it will also be on my phone as well!!

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