John Carmack: don’t look for id games on iPod, iPhone anytime soon
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Nov 15, 2007 at 9:55am
Video game developer John Carmack of id (the company behind such games as Doom and Quake) told GameDaily that there’s little chance of the company bringing games to the iPod or iPhone.
Here’s what he had to say about Apple in the far-ranging interview: “We’ve certainly been looking at it but Steve Jobs and I have not been seeing really eye to eye on a lot of important issues. We were in a fairly heated argument at the last WWDC [Worldwide Developers Conf.] and we’ve had a few follow-ups. I have an iPhone right now and it’s a platform I would enjoy developing for but Apple is not taking progressive steps in regards to [gaming]. Their strategy seems to be working just find from a business standpoint, so I’m not going to second guess them and tell them they’re being fools or idiots for not focusing on this.
“The honest truth right now is that Apple’s not exactly hugely supportive of this. When they finally allowed games to be put on the iPod … in many ways it’s one of the worst environments to develop games for. You have to work on an emulator … just all these horrible decisions. I expressed my fears directly to Steve Jobs that some of these mistakes might be carried over to the iPhone, so they’re at least aware of all of them, but they’re not giving any spectacular signs that it’s going to be a big deal for them in the next year.”
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