Friday, July 28, 2000

Wilson takes some shots at Apple -- 7:03 pm CST, Update by The Master

Mike Wilson, CEO of Gathering of Developers, has made a couple of blunt statements in a Q&A GameWeek interview. He then sent a follow-up email to Blue clarifying his comments on Apple's lack of marketing support for gaming titles. Too bad for Apple-they can go ahead and pot themselves in the head. My view? The only people who put the major cash into system upgrades on a yearly basis are hardware junkies, gamers, and power users. And power users don't care about games. Hmmmm . . . so which third of the market is Apple ignoring?

[We’re] not very happy at all. Apple has basically abandoned gaming as a priority, and therefore most game publishers are abandoning it. This will likely be the last Macworld that you see Gathering product at, if things don’t change drastically. We have been very vocal about our support of Apple and the Mac up to now, but I have to say that there has been no reciprocity whatsoever. [It’s] very disappointing and sad for the Mac users.

Oh, and Apple has made a rather massive mistake with that blue cube server of theirs, since it infringes on Cobalt Network's Qube system design. Oops. You'd think with all the lawsuits they like throwing at companies that copy their designs, they'd make sure they don't step on it themselves :-)

News for 07/28/2000

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