Battleheart Developer Drops Android As 'Unsustainable' - Slashdot

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Owen Densmore

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Mar 10, 2012, 11:24:01 PM3/10/12

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From our earlier wedtech chat, and as much as I HATE Apple's draconian deployment, this shows the difficulties of Android devs:

http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/03/10/2226214/battleheart-developer-drops-android-as-unsustainable

One commenter said it all:

"The issue with android is you are developing for a moving target. A near infinite number of hardware/software combinations, and no way to test on all of them. That's not an issue of not wanting to do work, but having to do near infinite work for a finite amount of return is bad business."

I think (hope!) this is why Google bought Moto .. not just for patent protection, but for defining a standard Android HW platform.