EA managed to bring something that looks a lot better than SimCity DS, and a helluva lot better than SimCity Mobile to SimCity for iPhone and iPod touch. The iPhone version is basically SimCity 3000 at its core. EA built a Multi-Touch interface that works quite well. (It's worth a restart after initial installation.) Constant city construction takes a toll on battery life, at least on an iPhone 3G. Alas, IIRC, SC3K requires Mac OS 9. A Universal Binary version of SimCity 4 languishes at Aspyr, which is just as well since the franchise had lost its way at that point. It would be cool if EA released SimCity for iPhone for Mac OS X. Maybe Apple will eventually let all Mac users run iPhone apps on their Mac. They could build the iPhone simulator into iTunes, for example.
