id Software kingpin John Carmack made a bit of news this week when he said in an interview that the iPod/iPhone is not a very good device to create games for.

His exact words: "in many ways it's one of the worst environments to develop games for."

Turns out the iPod's also a pretty bad compass and it makes a lousy omlette.

But it's a great music player.

16 Nov 2007

This wasn't lost on Carmack, who also noted "Their strategy seems to be working just fine from a business standpoint, so I'm not going to second guess them and tell them they're being fools or idiots for not focusing on this."

Perhaps Carmack remembers what happened the last time someone tried to create a mobile phone for gamers.