Monkey Island Creator Slams Corporate Control Over Game Publishing 298
An anonymous reader writes "Ron Gilbert, co-creator of classic games Maniac Mansion, Monkey Island 1 and 2, and many more, has spoken out against corporate censorship — the way of large companies getting a say on what does or does not get published on the distribution channels they control. Although his insightful rant applies to a number of corporations (Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo and Comcast are mentioned), most of the direct examples single out Apple. Quoting: 'Apple has maintained an almost North Koreanish dictatorial control over the devices, becoming the arbitrator over what is good and bad, what is allowed and not allowed. They don't have this control over the Mac because it is a real computer and an open device, but they can do this with the iPhone because we (as consumers) were convinced by the cell phone carriers that they needed this control to protect their networks (in the same way they wouldn't let us own our own telephones in the '70s) and Apple was happy to jump on that ship because they could finally control everything that went on the device and we bought it into it. Apple apologists say that Apple needs this control to maintain the "specialness" of the device. I say that's a load of crap.'" He also mentions Adidas dropping out of iAds because they couldn't accept Apple's excessive creative control, and a photography app that was rejected because it used the volume buttons as trigger."
Re:Oh man (Score:1, Funny)
Well, you wont be doing that on Apple devices.
Re:Happy and satisfied (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Happy and satisfied (Score:5, Funny)
Using his mouth?
Robert Gilbert - 1 Troll (Score:3, Funny)
Mod Robert Gilbert - 1 Troll for attacking apple.
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joking
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Re:Happy and satisfied (Score:2, Funny)
Somehow that man was able to trade in on his personal mythos and by sticking to basic KISS practices and turn pretty damned much anything he wants to sell into instant gold. hell look at the iPad, which is an iPod touch made bigger and just as damned unergonomic, and look at how it is treated like the second coming. Give the man credit folks, I swear he could probably sell ice cream to Eskimos.
It's called the Reality Distortion Field.
Re:Happy and satisfied (Score:4, Funny)
Do they let you keep the piece of your brain they removed in an iJar?
They tried, but then Oracle sued.
Re:Maybe not the best example. (Score:2, Funny)
Your keyboard has a button on it near the bottom that's really long and doesn't have a label. Most of the time, when you're typing sentences, when you press this button it inserts a space character in the text. Do you get confused when you're online and you're using TAB to skip between interface elements, you land on a button, press the space bar, and it "clicks" the button? This key is only supposed to insert spaces into text, right? Why is it also clicking buttons that you've focused? That's madness!
.....Madness?
THIS
IS
SPACE BAR!
Re:Happy and satisfied (Score:2, Funny)