Game makers miffed at Apple shut-out

GAME DEVELOPERS are snarling since Apple refused to let them develop games for for the iPod.

According to MacWorld, a package of nine games was released at the iTunes store recently, but they do not seem to have been made by anyone obvious.

Pangea Software President Brian Greenstone reckons he could have come up with some games that blow away the stuff that's available, if only Apple had let him.

Apparently, games developers have been pitching games at Apple for ages only to get ignored. Most of them thought that Apple was not going to bother with games for the iPod at all, until last week when the package of games was announced.

The feeling among the developers was that Apple could put any game they wanted on the iPod and got an enthusiastic response.

Instead, the music-seller-that-doesn't-really-sell-music-actually-honest-Mr -McCartney was too interested in being secretive and will not release an iPod Software Development Kit, even to its most trusted partners who agreed to sign an NDA.

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