Listed under Apple’s official website is this want-job ad for a software engineer who has at least the following qualifications:

-strong C / C++ / Objective-C / iPhone background preferred
-3-4 years of video game development experience, shipped at least one AAA title
-passionate gamer
-skills in audio systems, graphics pipeline, and network programming a plus
-ability to work in small dynamic team

Since the launch of the iPhone, Apple has released only one gaming application (Texas Hold’em, 2008). All the rest of the games available at the Apple store are from different, more established gaming publishers such as Electronic Arts and Konami. And these games have been growing in popularity, especially since the games are cheaper compared to those running on gadgets like DS and PSP.

While iPhone is, first and foremost, not a gaming platform, there is reason to assume the company is  really looking to capitalize on this direction as there seems to be a growing market for it.

Called the pocketBLU, which may now be freely downloaded at the App Store, this application turns your iPhone into a remote control for the Blu Ray player. With this, you can make use of your iPhone to playback, fast forward, search chapters and anything else you would do with a standard clicker.

But this just won’t work for any movies. It has to be specifically from Universal, and it must be a movie with the pocketBLU logo conspicuously displayed on its disc case. The Blu-Ray player must also have its Wi-Fi capabilities enabled.

So, really it’s just an application to control a mechanism, something we think is only interesting…for five minutes. And then it’s pretty much useless. Good thing it’s only free.