Today was Apple’s chance to shine.  They didn’t.  Basically, they took everything on my list of what they should do and didn’t…at least not yet…  If you want a souped-up game console though, you were in luck.  You can now do voice chat in games.  You can now buy things in games.  You can access your music library in games.  You can push-notify your friends to join you in a game.  See a trend here?  Instead of adding true functionality, they have concentrated on where their sales are in the iTunes store…games.  Their lame excuse that push technology is better than background processes just doesn’t withstand the laugh test.  If they can allow THEIR music player and alarm clock to play in the background, there is no reason why they can’t do the same for Pandora, Ambiance, and so forth.  Yet again, Apple has showed that they are in it for Apple, not their consumers.

 

UPDATE:  OK.  Maybe I spoke too soon.  Looks like Cut-and-paste made it in.   So did MMS.  Still think it is a game-centered release though.