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Game Developers Scaling Back Android Efforts as iPhone Continues to Dominate
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WTF is this political crap?
Very minor issues for iPhone compared to all the various hardware and OS version android developers will face.
Apparently you need to write to the Game Dev and yell at him for piss poor pause and resume design in the game.
in Madden10 ( GO BEARS!!) if I got a text, IM, whatever.. it would yes slow down for a moment .. go to the pause screen and show my IM/text/whatever... now if I just hit the ignore or whatever button the notify box went away and I went back to the game.. it picked up mid play if I recall correctly ... now if I had to answer im/text/whatever.. well sure it unloaded the game loaded up texts/AIM/whatever and I did what I had to do .. reloaded up madden and resumed the game again .. sure I had to start the play over.. but hey ... IT'S A FREAKING PHONE THAT I CAN PLAY MADDEN ON !!!!!!!! A PHONE!!!!
if I wanted it to be just for games and have nothing interrupt me I'd go buy a XWii360PS... and I'd shut my phone off and play games on it .. but I'm PLAYING THEM ON MY PHONE!!!!! if the notifications bug you soo much in the middle of your rock band session ... try this ... Put it in airplane mode.. SHAZAM!!! no annoying texts popping up to ruin your day.
also if you could do all this multitasking that everyone is begging for ... Umm .... well all the great high powered games we play on our iphones would SUCK.. cuz you would not get enough processor cycles free and free ram to well play the freaking game !!!!! and well there goes your already timid battery life ( Hey I love my 3GS but man the battery could be better... Steve please don't smite me for that one ! )
I personally LIKE having then notes pop up .. cuz hey lookie there.. I found out the boss is headed to my office so I better stop playing madden and make it look like I'm working ...
basically QUIT WHINING and realize your playing games on your PHONE.. it's #1 job is as a communications device... game center second.
Give the guy a break. He's making valid suggestions for improving the way things worse. It's not perfect as-is, ya know.
What, like 1.5, 1.6 or 2.0 ? Vs.. oh... 2.0, 3.0, 3.1 ? Seems about the same to me
Not to mention can I use GPS ? Video camera ? Faster GPU ? Compass ?
The iPhone is as cobbled up as the Android platform. Either you develop for a small subset of features available everywhere, or you're stuck not supporting some of the devices.
Wait, you were going to mention screen resolution ? Android's API takes into account that you might be or not running on different resolution screens.
Exactly. I suppose the grand parent in this dialogue didn't bother to search for the Arstechnica he cited on this site.
People have been very excited and eager to develop for the iPhone since the day it launched, which is before it had the large user base it has right now. They were so excited to develop for the iPhone, not because it had a large user base, but because it was such an exciting and groundbreaking new platform that laid the foundations for the future of mobile platforms. Thats why people were so eager to develop for it. The explosion in iPhone sales came AFTER the App store was launched when the iPhone priced 199.
Yeah I'm sure the iphone doesn't offer free apps, the majority of apps downloaded on the iphone are free!
Can you give us a reliable source instead of guesses from analysts, please and thank you.
According to the majority of consumers who have voted the iphone into the phone with the highest consumer satisfaction. The iphone also has the highest satisfaction amongst business users.
Oh look, another thing not reported here, iPhone app piracy at 60% : http://www.pinchmedia.com/blog/piracy-in-the-app-store-from-360idev/. Maybe the iPhone isn't the big gold mine LTD makes it out to be after all
If the iphone is at 60 percent, Android must be one hundred since developers aren't making any money there and their users except everything for free, still better to develop for the iphone.
Right but it's still 100 times better than the situation developers in Android world are facing, and more hardware is coming out.
Fanboy statement enough?
What? That's almost stupidest thing i've ever heard.
More arm-chair experts arguing their pointless point.
Apple has the best Smartphone and OS out there, the sales say it, the people say it, the facts say it.
Of course we always get the gathering of nerds who like to think they have a slight insight to the future to justify their backing of other platforms - which is cool, but do not act in denial.
Apple has the best Smartphone and OS out there, the sales say it, the people say it, the facts say it.
Of course we always get the gathering of nerds who like to think they have a slight insight to the future to justify their backing of other platforms - which is cool, but do not act in denial.
Both of you hit on the main problem with Android and something that affects all Android application developers.
Google is not interested in making Android a "lifestyle choice" like Apple has been with the iPhone.
They're interested in having yet another platform to distribute their advertisement-supported applications to gather more user demographic information they can sell because those are the only two revenue streams Google mines.
It's why their apps also run on the iPhone. And Windows Mobile. And Symbian. And Blackberry. And Palm. And Palm webOS. They need scale to maximize revenues so they support all platforms more or less equally.
As such, I do not expect Google to nurture the Android hardware and software community like Apple has. They give the OS away for free and they don't take a cut from any hardware sales or service contracts. They spent the money to seed the market, but if it stalls, Google still has plenty of other "oars in the water" so they have no entrenched vested interest to ensure Android succeeds like Apple does with the iPhone, RIM does with Blackberry, Palm does with the Pre, etc.
There are FREE applications for navigation on the iPhone, there are FREE IM client applications on the iPhone and there are FREE "email/calender/doc sync"
applications on the iPhone you didn't make any point whatsoever.
Open source isn't everything, most customers ARE NOT developers so open source means nothing to them.
iPhone SDK offers a solid platform on which you can develop for one specific OS. Stop making it seem like ALL the applications in the appstore cost money cause they do not.
Interesting how even after all this time, all this publicity, all the mindhsare it's garnered, there is still such ignorance about the iPhone. Frankly, I think it's just deliberate obfuscation.
Agreed. And the fact that Steve Jobs stood up on stage at the time and said that they want to release a native SDK, but hadn't figured out how to do it at that time.
I also find it funny that when Steve mentioned "web apps" everyone on the planet thought he was crazy. Now of course we have both Google and Palm who want developers to do pretty much the same and those companies are "innovative." At least they're both using Webkit.
ROFL yeah everyone is making fun of the Droid. All those good reviews must be a figment of my imagination.
So tell me: how much time have you spent actually using the Droid?
Interesting. Developers are leaving the iPhone because of the opaque and capricious app review process and developers are leaving Android because of the lack of revenue. Which platform will win?
Actually, no, the sales say Apple has the 3rd best Smartphone and OS out there. But I don't think you're interested in facts... just arguing your pointless point.
Neither. Everyone here is under the impression that one must win. That's not the case. In a competitive market, everyone wins.
Following your logic, you target 18% of the smartphone market (the iPhone) first and leave the remaining 82% aside (which consists of more than just the Android platform).
The only reason that really speaks for that preference is that the iPhone is the most expensive target device and that it is usually owned by people who have that extra buck to spend. It's certainly not the market share that makes it so attractive - it's the consuming audience. Consumers is the key word here.
If you wrote business software, and not games, you'd be much more interested in the other platforms, because once again Apple seems to be missing the opportunity to enter the enterprise market. It's amazing enough that they are not missing the games market this time - they never managed to attract and support game developers to and on the Mac. Jobs has always been to snobbish for that.
This reminds me of the eras when Atari, and then later Nintendo, dominated the video game market. Other companies would come out with "better" hardware, but they would not be able to compete with the leader because they didn't have good games. There is much more to a successful game platform than the highest resolution or the fastest processor. It's all about having good software.
I think there are a lot more developers for the iPhone than the Android, so the iPhone can survive better without a few of them than the android can.
This is something I don't understand. Why are the fanboys so desperate for other phones to fail? What difference does it make if another manufacturer makes a phone that sells more than the iPhone?
As long as Apple stays focused and keeps improving the iPhone what is their problem. Are they so insecure that the thought of someone having a "better" phone fills them with dread?