"Even if they wanted, making a new voice with Nuance takes weeks of recording (I've worked a lot with Nuance and text-to-speech systems). So, if they do, that means Steve would have already recorded its voice, but I don't think he wasted its last moments doing that."
- fbrunel
"Nintendo has not the exclusivity of the physical control. And "being around for a long time" is your argument why Nintendo is invincible? You should better look at their depressing losses last quarter. They're losing money like crazy. When they ran out, it's over. That simple.
Nintendo lost 50% of their value on the market... in 6 months."
- fbrunel
"Just try Aside Magazine, an HTML5 apps and see how much it sucks on the iPad 2. HTML5 is far from being the promised silver bullet.
See http://pinchzoom.com/posts/ana... for a developer perspective.
Only big companies can afford the effort and it's the best they can do? How disappointing."
- fbrunel
"No surprise. Nintendo is going to become like SEGA, who gave up making hardware and focused on making games for all platforms. SEGA hardware business was brought down by SONY PS2 at the time (their last gaming console was the Dreamcast).
Nintendo hardware business is all about handheld devices and iDevices have just taken its place. As a parent, how can you even consider buying a 3DS (a single purpose device) at the same price of an iPod Touch and close to an iPad.
They're done."
- fbrunel
"That's funny, I don't think Nokia would say the same thing if they had the same sales numbers Apple has with iTunes/Apps. Also, I don't think you can trust them as predicting the future, they're clearly not the right people."
- fbrunel