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The Great iPhone/Droid Corps War

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With the new iPhone 4 and Droid Incredible/HTC, What are you excited for? Are you switching? Staying and apple fanboy, like myself? Which would you rather game on?

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  • Ricardo Melo posted an update in the group The Great iPhone/Droid Corps War:   1 year, 11 months ago · View

    For gaming it will be extremely hard for Android phones to compete with iOS 4 (iPhone OS) due to the variety of devices that use Android and the different flavors of Android that there are.

    For a developer it’s a big boon knowing that you’re developing for only one (maybe two) devices that run the same OS (iPhone, iTouch) instead of 10 (Nexus One, Dream, Hero, Incredible, Legend, Evo, etc…) and all with variations of Android OS (1.5 Cupcake, 1.6 Donut, 2.1 Éclair or the upcoming 2.2 Froyo… this is real stuff, look it up).

    Also lets not forget that is much easier to distribute pirated software on Android devices than on the iOS devices (which require a jailbreak to do so) + there’s this freeware culture on the Google developers and users as well. And in the end, the device that draws the bigger bucks is the one that will charm de game dev houses.

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      2πr · 1 year, 11 months ago

      i dunno…that’s always been the strength of the mac os over windows, but look how THAT turned out for gamers.

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        Ricardo Melo · 1 year, 11 months ago

        True, but it also has a lot to do with market share, and this time around Apple has the advantage.

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  • Wiggly posted an update in the group The Great iPhone/Droid Corps War:   1 year, 11 months ago · View

    I’d love to get an iPhone if they weren’t tied to Momma Bell and I can’t yet see myself putting down the loot for a Droid. Then again, I still can’t justify even having a data plan at all at this time so, right now I’m just on a voice and text plan.

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  • Kyle VonKubik posted an update in the group The Great iPhone/Droid Corps War:   1 year, 11 months ago · View

    This is purely my opinion, but hands down, the Droid cannot hold the iPhone’s jock-strap when it comes to gaming. The App Store far out-shines the Droid’s Market for gaming purposes. With that being said, I love my Droid and strictly for utilitarian reasons. It’s made my professional life a lot more streamlined and thus the rest of my life a lot easier. My iPod Touch, gives me all the iPhone gaming experiences I need without the expense of owning an actual iPhone. That’s my two-cents.

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      Wiggly · 1 year, 11 months ago

      Don’t sell yourself short, that was definitely worth at least four cents.

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      2πr · 1 year, 11 months ago

      iPhone also has a multi-year lead on the Droid. Give it time.

      I would also point out that porn game developers will *only* have the Droid as a viable platform, should that matter.

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