Economics of iPod Games

[Jim Witte]

Hi,

   I was thinking this morning about the fact that many have  
commented on that the Nano cannot run games (I'm not sure about the  
new Nanos), only the HDD-based iPods.  Which led me to wonder, since  
a lot of people might go for the Nano on price, what if Apple were to  
through in a free set of games with purchases of the 30GB model for a  
while?  Would that induce more "Nano switchers"?  Of course, the  
maintainance costs for the HDD-based ones are probably higher, since  
the Nanos have no moving parts, with the possible exception of the  
buttons under the click-wheel itself (could that clicking be  
capacitace-based as well?)

Jim

- Waiting for the iPod SDK integrated into xCode to show up..  Or  
maybe I'll just see if the game file is a straight ARM ELF file and  
try to reverse-engineer Pixo and Apple's 'iPod QT' layer..