[jrockway]

If Apple takes on the gaming market and develops a few of their own in-house games, you can bet your bottom dollar that they will be pushed front and center and other games shoved to the back.

I am the biggest anti-Apple fanboi in existence, but I don't see the connection here. All of Apple's marketing for the iPhone and iTouch is about third-party apps. There is a huge Apple billboard outside my office advertising a bunch of third-party games for the iTouch. So if they start banning third-party games, this will be an unprecedented reversal in their current policy.

As an aside, I am looking forward to the day when I can get AdBlock in real life.

[lmohdlp]

We all know that Apple doesn't follow their own policies pertaining to the Apple Store very well. That is why this could possibly be an issue if Apple seriously enters the gaming market to compete with the likes of the DS (which many bloggers are speculating).

Apple has set a precedent for itself, apps that duplicate, or in some cases have an icon that simply looks like an Apple icon have been and will be denied.

It is logical to assume that based off of Apple's history, the same will happen for games IF they choose to enter the gaming market seriously and/or have certain games installed by default.