why is sounds like one you give random guy untold power over other people tell them to keep other people happy and see how long till they become a dictator with a god complex that's kills people for fun. (much like the sims games)Kahani said:
Fallout Shelter Available for iOS: Trailer and Image Gallery - Update
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Mobile developers like to spend their resources where there's actual money to be made though. One of the reasons why Android has such a large marketshare worldwide is because of developing nations such as China, where you have lots of people with piss cheap Android phones that aren't up to specs for the latest games, and certainly won't spend much money. Meanwhile in the US, Japan and Australia iOS marketshare is higher than Android, people can afford higher end phones and to actually pay for their apps/games.Doom972 said:
To sum it up: Yes, the marketshare for Android is bigger than iOS worldwide. But the majority of that falls outside of the developer's intended market.
It's not bad. I've been playing it most of the day and I like it. The special packs (i.e. lunchboxes) that you can buy are also earnable in game, and I've already gotten five or so. Really, so far the only reason I can see for making any purchase at all is if you seriously screw up the early game. Which you will, because the tutorial barely covers the basics and the help menu leaves out quite a bit. Pro-tip: if you intend to connect three rooms into one, don't upgrade one before you've built them all. It's possible that upgrading the other rooms will connect them later, but again, the game doesn't tell you if it does. I just said screw it and razed them all to the ground. Regardless, it's a decent little time management/waster game, especially for free. Just make sure you send somebody out into the wasteland early so you can start equipping your minions with actual weapons.VincentX3 said:
https://gigaom.com/2015/02/04/android-and-ios-are-nearly-tied-for-u-s-smartphone-market-share/Doom972 said:
The source for those numbers has changed slightly in favor of Android since December. As for Europe, the Android marketshare seems to follow countries that were hit by the EU financial crisis.
Still, iOS users are the biggest spenders when it comes to apps/games.
http://techland.time.com/2013/04/16/ios-vs-android/
And then there's hardware segmentation, there are thousands of different Android devices, covering everything from low to mid and high end specs, which is great for customer economy and choice. iOS devices though are mostly high end at release and not the cheapest, so iOS customers tend to actually have money to spend.
And that's all this boils down to, developers want paying customers with as little hardware variation as possible.
The strange thing is, we're creating an app at work at the moment, and releasing to android (and in fact, coding to android) is way, way easier than iOS, like so much easier that the first draft of our app will be android only, and then we'll worry about getting the iOS version sorted because it's so much more work.Ugicywapih said:
Albeit we are just a small team of barely-professionals, so maybe a large company can cut through much of the Apple red tape easier, but it's still actually a harder platform to code and release for in my experience!
Must be a money issue with Apple users paying more, as others have said.
The data you posted shows that Android is used by the vast majority everywhere but the US and Japan. Australia's market is almost 60% Android users. Germany is doing well financially and its market is 75% Android users, so I'm not sure where that claim came from.NLS said:
With that in mind, it does seem that you're right about iOS users spending more money on apps, so it's hard to tell if a better market share means better profits.
Regardless of profit - if the Fallout fanbase distribution is normal in regards to global market share of smartphone ownership, then it means that the vast majority of Fallout fans won't get to play this game if an Android version won't get released.
