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Rovio Mobile, the studio behind the mobile hit Angry Birds, on Thursday
admitted it is having issues with the free, ad-supported Android version
of the title on certain Android phone models.
While Rovio said it is preparing a solution so fans with any Android
phone can play the game, the 18 now officially-unsupported Android
phones may highlight Apple CEO Steve Jobs' criticisms that the
platform's market is detrimentally fragmented.
"Android is very fragmented," said Jobs during an Apple earnings call
last month. His company's competing iOS for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad
is spread across relatively few Apple-owned mobile models. "...The users
will have to figure it all out. Compare this with iPhone, where every
handset works the same."
The Angry Birds team said in its blog post today, "With our latest
update [to the Android version], we worked hard to bring Angry Birds to
even more Android devices. Despite our efforts, we were unsuccessful in
delivering optimal performance," the developer said.
"Right now we are running even more testing and resolving all the issues
we have identified. We are also looking at all of the feedback we have
received, and trying to improve the ad performance."
The company said it is working on a "lightweight" version of Angry Birds
for Android that is playable on older Android phones that have lower
specs.
Among the Android phones currently not supported for Angry Birds play
are the HTC Dream, Motorola Backflip/MB300, Samsung Transform, T-Mobile
G2 and others. Devices running Android OS versions below 1.6 or custom
ROMs are also not currently supported. Rovio said it is working towards
supporting all Android phones.
Angry Birds, released on the App Store in December last year, has sold
10 over million units on Apple's iOS storefront, according to Rovio.
Last month, the developer released the game for free on Android
platforms, where the title was downloaded 2 million times in its first
few days of availability.
Including free and paid downloads from the App Store, Android platform,
Palm WebOS, Symbian^3 and the Nokia N900, Angry Birds has been
downloaded 30 million times, according to Rovio.
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Comments
Jen Grier
18 Nov 2010 at 1:21 pm PST
I appreciate their efforts on this point. I don't think enough has been
done by the manufacturers or Google to make ROMS of the carrier-varied
Android flavors available for developers. They need more tools to
spearhead these issues. I hope this situation changes soon.
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Jesse Tucker
18 Nov 2010 at 1:38 pm PST
To be honest, the game is incredibly hitchy on my iPod touch, and is
still slightly hitchy on the iPhone 4. Sound would cut out, distort or
turn off completely, and it would occasionally skip lots of frames and
suffer from delayed/inconsistent input timing. If they couldn't get the
game to run really smoothly on a single target platform, I'm not really
surprised they're running into a lot of issues getting it running on all
of the different Android phones.
It's a great game otherwise and the steady stream of new content for it
is wonderful, but there have always been underlying performance issues.
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Simon Ludgate
18 Nov 2010 at 1:54 pm PST
I think it may be a problem with the ad overly. I notice on my Moto
Milestone that the game runs smoothly when there are no ads on screen,
but every time an ad shows up it becomes very choppy.
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Ron Alpert
18 Nov 2010 at 1:58 pm PST
People always ask me to port my iPhone games to Android, and I would
love to - but this is the number one reason why I won't bother (for the
time being) as I'd rather spend time/resources on creating more actual
applications than trying to satisfy that fragmented market.
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Marc-Olivier Beaupre
18 Nov 2010 at 2:17 pm PST
I have an Android phone (HTC Hero) and Angry Birds is laggy and
unplayable. If they fix the performance problem, I will be more than
glad to play it. I don't have an Android for video games but for Androit
itself. If it becomes in a near future a good gaming platform, I will be
glad to buy those games but right now, it is limited. I am not an
Android expert but I'm just glad the devs are trying to fix those
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【在 j****n 的大作中提到】
: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/31618/Mobile_Hit_Angry_Birds_Runs_Int
: o_Android_Issues.php
: Rovio Mobile, the studio behind the mobile hit Angry Birds, on Thursday
: admitted it is having issues with the free, ad-supported Android version
: of the title on certain Android phone models.
: While Rovio said it is preparing a solution so fans with any Android
: phone can play the game, the 18 now officially-unsupported Android
: phones may highlight Apple CEO Steve Jobs' criticisms that the
: platform's market is detrimentally fragmented.
: "Android is very fragmented," said Jobs during an Apple earnings call
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【在 j****n 的大作中提到】
: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/31618/Mobile_Hit_Angry_Birds_Runs_Int
: o_Android_Issues.php
: Rovio Mobile, the studio behind the mobile hit Angry Birds, on Thursday
: admitted it is having issues with the free, ad-supported Android version
: of the title on certain Android phone models.
: While Rovio said it is preparing a solution so fans with any Android
: phone can play the game, the 18 now officially-unsupported Android
: phones may highlight Apple CEO Steve Jobs' criticisms that the
: platform's market is detrimentally fragmented.
: "Android is very fragmented," said Jobs during an Apple earnings call
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