Jobs doesnt understand game development

David Helgason, Unity Technologies CEO, has said that he believes Apple CEO Steve Jobs doesn’t understand the economics of games development.”

I think he also said that consumers will decide what they think of them, and they have decided that some of the middleware games – including some of the Unity games – are pretty good,” he said.

He doesn’t understand the economics of game development fundamentally. It’s reasonable to use a native UI framework for an information driven application like Facebook or Linkedin, but nobody actually seriously does that with games, especially not games for iPhone or something like that.”

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