Trip warns tarns that Android OS 'strikes out' for gaming
Digital Chocolate boss Trip Hawkins has strongly criticised Google's Android platform, in a blog post titled 'Droidful'.
While he hails the fact that Android handsets are selling in great numbers, Hawkins says that "as a game platform right now, Android strikes out", citing three reasons: payment, pricing policy and advertising rules.
Hawkins points out that many current Android handsets don't support carrier billing, and won't until 2011. But his strongest criticism is reserved for Google's stewardship of Android Market.
"Conventional games don’t sell on Android because Google has a senseless and lazy policy to ignore what is posted into their app store," he writes.
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And that's what I like of it. I guess for game developers think of a several million units market like a destination seems nice. But when you design hardware for games you must think of power but for a phone you must think of batery time... I prefer the sencond option...
