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<blockquote data-quote="Worf" data-source="post: 33624" data-attributes="member: 1047"><p>Not anymore than on Android, which is even more of a pain. At least Apple updates the OS once a year, and issues new devices once a year. With Android, there's a much wider spread of OSes (majority run 2.3, from 2010, 25% run 4.0, 2% run 4.1, rest run 2.2 or older), screen resolutions, screen sizes, 3D hardware capabilities, RAM, CPU, etc. Given the nature of TPA, supporting iOS is rather easy - maybe a capital investment of a few thousand dollars a year. But Android, following the hot devices and tablets to see what's wrong or if things get horribly screwed up... and reviewers are quick to post 1-star "it doesn't work" (just as they are on iOS).</p><p></p><p>Plus Apple gives developers OS betas and all that, so they have plenty of time to try with the latest (the only time it doesn't is when introducing new hardware, but the simulators usually do a good enough job). Google... not so much, which is why OS support lags horrendously.</p><p></p><p>And unless you don't buy another table, FarSight gets payment from that to maintain TPA. When they stop making money from iOS is when it's time to worry.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Worf, post: 33624, member: 1047"] Not anymore than on Android, which is even more of a pain. At least Apple updates the OS once a year, and issues new devices once a year. With Android, there's a much wider spread of OSes (majority run 2.3, from 2010, 25% run 4.0, 2% run 4.1, rest run 2.2 or older), screen resolutions, screen sizes, 3D hardware capabilities, RAM, CPU, etc. Given the nature of TPA, supporting iOS is rather easy - maybe a capital investment of a few thousand dollars a year. But Android, following the hot devices and tablets to see what's wrong or if things get horribly screwed up... and reviewers are quick to post 1-star "it doesn't work" (just as they are on iOS). Plus Apple gives developers OS betas and all that, so they have plenty of time to try with the latest (the only time it doesn't is when introducing new hardware, but the simulators usually do a good enough job). Google... not so much, which is why OS support lags horrendously. And unless you don't buy another table, FarSight gets payment from that to maintain TPA. When they stop making money from iOS is when it's time to worry. [/QUOTE]
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