John Carmack wants to Develop Games for the iPhone

Along with EA (Maxis) and Sega (Super Monkey Ball), Doom creator John Carmack has added his company id to the list of game developers for the iPhone/iPod Touch platform. According to him, the distribution capabilities offered by iTunes is the key benefit of developing for the Apple platform: the ability to distribute larger applications than the regular cellular network limits imposed by the carriers, effectively market a title with more than a dozen character deck name and the reasonable revenue split offered by Apple.

As we already wrote it, once again, iTunes proves to be a formidable weapon for Apple’s business development.

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