Apple seems to have forgotten that the Apple iPhone and the iPod Touch are getting plenty of use thanks to gaming applications. And these apps are not the type of games that one would find the addictive hardcore gamer wanting to play, but rather a series of small applications built for enjoyment and micro-transactions that attract thousands of users.
According to Apple, the Game Centre support has been removed from the iPhone 3G and they will now be concentrating on the iPhone 4. It is a pretty bold move now that they decided to leave millions of iPhone 3G users in the air without any tech support for their applications. But if the folks at Cupertino believe that the move would entice more people switching to the newer iPhone, they are sorely mistaken. Besides, the iPhone 4 already has enough unsolved problems to begin with (such as the antenna issue and the iOS 4 problems with older iPhone devices).
Users of the iPhone are also quick to point out that for a device that primarily finds plenty of functionality through gaming applications (which, according to sales reports, sell only second to digital books); Apple lacks support for the games. One simple aspect is save files: after all, not all games can be played in one quick sitting, lengthier titles would require a form of a game save.
Sadly, this game save data is directly linked to an existing application and there is no way to back it up. If the app is deleted, so does the save file –and there is no way to restore deleted games with save data short restoring from a previous full backup. Many users have been hoping that Apple would come out with a way to save individual game files and to be able to manually restore progress from previous games that had to be uninstalled.
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