January 2010

Jan26

Apple Tablet: Multiplayer Fingerprint Detection? 0 Comments

This blog entry is purely speculative based on a number of different news articles I have read over the past couple of months.

As an iPhone developer, I am giddy with anticipation over tomorrow’s supposed unveiling of Apple’s upcoming tablet. Specifically, my interest in multiplayer gaming as it relates to the iPhone and iPod Touch, and now iPad (if that’s what the tablet is to be called), has peaked recently as I begin development of a couple of new mobile games of my own.

Yesterday a number of friends forwarded me a New York Times article entitled A Playland for Apps in a Tablet World. I actually didn’t make it through the entire article because I stopped dead in my tracks by the fourth paragraph which reads:

But the larger screen — most likely 10 inches diagonally — and other features of the tablet could inspire developers to create new twists on apps, like games that two or more people can easily play at once on the same device.

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