Boy, this one’s a mixed bag for guys like me with rather prodigious OpenFeint achievement scores: Apple’s just announced their own social network for gamers.
Think of it like Xbox Live for your iPhone (or a native OpenFeint, for that matter). You can use the app to make friends, earn achievements, compare scores and even invite friends to play multiplayer matches against you.
This is fantastic, but I feel really bad for the OpenFeint guys. They’d really made some headway, and now Apple’s just going to casually crush their business.
[image via Gizmodo]
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
