Comments on: How iPhone 3G S’s Better Graphics Complicate Matters for Developers and iPhone Owners

By: iPhone 3G S: What you need to know | Technology News

iPhone 3G S: What you need to know | Technology News — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 07:42:51 +0000

[...] But the graphics hardware itself also appears to be significantly improved. The graphics processor is reportedly the Imagination Technologies PowerVR SGX, a powerful mobile chip that takes advantage of Open GL ES [...]

By: David Worthington

David Worthington — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:30:49 +0000

branch rather

By: David Worthington

David Worthington — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:30:31 +0000

A smart dev would have a layer of abstraction so that they could fork the code with different drivers, but in this case, the hardware resources are so different, that it’s one or the other.

By: abcyesn

abcyesn — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:04:46 +0000

A standard needs to be created so all phones from all brands on all networks (including computers with webcams) can video call with each other. (If hardly anyone can talk with each other, like if you could only talk to other iPhone owners, it won’t ever catch on)

Cell networks need to be dramatically improved to allow for anything close to wide-spread usable quality. (people need to just know that video calling will work no matter where they are before they start regularly using it. If it seems spotty, they’ll just forget about it)

Until then it will be an extremely buggy, gimmicky feature that you might use to show off but when it came down to it, would sit idle. They’re BARELY getting MMS standardized between different carriers (even just a few years ago it was big news that Verizon and Sprint could send pictures to each other) and phones and imagine how simple that is compared to live streaming video.

share your views at http://www.iPhone3GS.org it’s just for the iPhone 3G s.

By: Backlin

Backlin — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:48:13 +0000

Independent and low-budget game companies will definitely develop for the iPhone 3G, since it maintains the biggest marketshare (all iPhones before 3GS and all iPod Touches). Bigger game makers may make a “pro” version for the 3G S. It would help if the company denoted what version of OpenGL the game uses, or what models it’s compatible with.

What would REALLY simplify things would be a model check before the purchase of the app. This way, nobody pays then finds out they can’t run the program on their hardware.