Google reportedly making a Game Center for Android

13. MichaelHeller posted on 10 May 2012, 16:18 7 1

Weird that Business Insider is making this sound like a scoop since Google talked about it 2 months ago.
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Google-planning-a-unified-games-platform_id27807

Also, how biased was the Business Insider piece? As if Apple was the first company to ever imagine a gaming center like that. The proper chain as far as my knowledge goes would be: Steam, Xbox Live achievements, Playstation Network Trophies, OpenFeint, ScoreLoop, iOS Game Center, and now Google Games. Is there anything before Steam that I don't know about?

42. protozeloz posted on 10 May 2012, 19:38 0 0

ha! I know they been working on it for some time.

8. android_sucks posted on 10 May 2012, 15:50 6 8

Wow!!!! This is exactly what I was going to post!!! Kudos!!!

46. LordOfTroll (banned) posted on 11 May 2012, 07:05 1 1

thank you

7. aztaxia12295 posted on 10 May 2012, 15:41 10 3

is all u do troll? seriously, u have no life, sorry, people like you make ios users like me have a bad name. get off the internet for just ONE day and it will make us all happy, now go play in traffic little boy.

32. Non_Sequitur posted on 10 May 2012, 18:01 1 0

@taco50: And this comes from another iOS user.
Thanks dude, you're helping a lot.

10. wassup posted on 10 May 2012, 16:07 5 1

says the guy who is proud that his company copied Pull- Down notifications and multi-tasking from google

11. taco50 (banned) posted on 10 May 2012, 16:12 5 7

Do you really think multitasking was invented by google?!

0_o

14. mas11 posted on 10 May 2012, 16:19 6 3

And do you really think iOS was the first to have a game center type program. The Xbox 360 does everything iOS's game center does and more.

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20. wassup posted on 10 May 2012, 17:00 5 2

Do you really think a game hub was invented by Apple?!

0_o

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12. mas11 posted on 10 May 2012, 16:15 3 5

Well let's be honest iOS still doesn't have true multi-tasking. iOS devotes more of its processing power to the UI and your current task. That's why iOS is so smooth.

15. taco50 (banned) posted on 10 May 2012, 16:19 4 7

iOS 1.0 had multitasking. There's no such thing As "true multitasking". Multitasking just means more than one task at a time. Apple has just done it better.

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16. mas11 posted on 10 May 2012, 16:29 3 1

How about you read an article on how iOS only suspends apps instead of having them run in the background like Android.http://www.extremetech.com/computing/112013-how-multitasking-works-on-android-and-ios

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17. taco50 (banned) posted on 10 May 2012, 16:32 3 6

You're not techy enough to understand.

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33. Non_Sequitur posted on 10 May 2012, 18:03 3 0

Yes there is. You can have a Gnex in each hand. :P

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19. Quezdagreat posted on 10 May 2012, 16:37 5 0

What's wrong with that? Its helps you pick up where you were and it saves power. No complaints here

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22. mas11 posted on 10 May 2012, 17:00 3 2

Can you bid on ebay with iOS while listening to Pandora and downloading an app at the same time?
Because that's what I'm doing right now on Android and none of my tasks slowed down or stopped while I was doing this.

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24. Lucas777 posted on 10 May 2012, 17:02 3 1

um ya u can do that quite simply…

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25. taco50 (banned) posted on 10 May 2012, 17:26 2 4

Yes you can. Sounds like you don't understand how iOS works.

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35. gwuhua1984 posted on 10 May 2012, 18:22 2 2

Can you text and watch a movie at the same time?

Please welcome SGS3... hey... where did iPhone go...?

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18. kastor posted on 10 May 2012, 16:33 0 0

yea yea since 2003,in taht preiod they could make a nuclear bomb with size of USB flash,not to open something like that

34. Non_Sequitur posted on 10 May 2012, 18:08 2 1

First of all, Google WAS working on Android since 2003.
And also, Google copying Apple? No. There are many people that have made "game centers" before. If anything, Apple copied Xbox live, Steam, et cetera.

36. taco50 (banned) posted on 10 May 2012, 18:35 2 2

Haha had to say it huh?

45. Non_Sequitur posted on 11 May 2012, 06:14 0 0

XD
Yes. Yes, I did. :-P

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37. Lift_Off posted on 10 May 2012, 19:03 1 2

I think you're the idiot in this whole post because you thought that an iphone couldn't play pandora while "bidding on ebay" and downloading an app hahahaha

41. mas11 posted on 10 May 2012, 19:38 1 1

I could have sworn that iOS paused the download when you open another app that uses internet. Maybe I need to play around with my friend's iPhone more often.

43. Lift_Off posted on 10 May 2012, 22:14 1 1

I think my ist gen ipod touch did that... but they probably updated that since

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44. mas11 posted on 11 May 2012, 01:23 1 1

That's how it worked on my friend's 3GS, I haven't played around with iOS 5.1 enough. I guess they changed it when iOS 4 came out.

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38. bucky posted on 10 May 2012, 19:28 2 1

Actually I have yet to see someone prove him wrong. I like the way iOS manages tasks. My YouTube vids on the sgs2 used to just restart when I went back to them after sending a text. iOS actually pauses the video exactly where I left off. Each has their strengths.

This would be classified under copying though (game centre).

40. protozeloz posted on 10 May 2012, 19:35 1 2

I dont see it named Game center (it could be related with their naming and it could be "play" branded) also I'm bot willing to tell him to shut up, he is a stupid troll ho already admitted not being tech savvy, and supposedly not interested in android.

he is just but hurt because he is still to find an excuse for every time I prove him wrong

30. networkdood posted on 10 May 2012, 17:45 2 2

sure, but this is not copying APPLE...directly.

39. bucky posted on 10 May 2012, 19:29 1 1

Actually this is pretty directly copying in this case.