I recieved a Nexus 7 for Christmas from a friend and returned it. Earlier this year I sold a Kindle Fire I recieved last Christmas-it's too tied in to the Amazon ecosystem and I don't want To deal with yet another walled garden. I kind of wish I kept the Nexus though, mainly for one reason - Emulation. As it is, I don't have any portable device (I'm not jb'ing my iphone) that is powerful enough, has emulators available, and provides the access to the filesystem required. oh yeah, about those 74 cores...it doesn't mean anything. It's how the chip is used, the voltage, memory speed, memory bus speed, memory cache size, instruction sets, how threads are handled, how the OS takes advantage of each core, how the display is drawn, etc...a core isn't a mystical computing god, it's just a part of the architecture of a chip, be it CPU, GPU, SOC, etc. A company (it would be a very strange one) could create a chip with 100 cores, each a miniaturized 8086 chip. I think it would be pretty slow . For a long time, my overclocked P4 chip was still blazing past multicore offerings. Yeah, that's not a graphics card, but still. Skyrim chugs on my current PC, even though my graphics card has over 200 cores.
Interesting. Care to share a little more about your earnings for both platforms? Like by how much more do you earn on android as compared to ios.
An Android exclusive that I've been playing on the Nexus is Kairosoft's Beastie Bay. Definitely their best one yet, kind of a Pokemon flavour to it. As someone has already pointed out however, its pretty inevitable that it comes to iOS eventually.
Ok. But how much more do you spend on android, or is it the same in terms of cost optimizing the game for both platforms?
Should be higher still if Google ever bother getting the prepay play cards into the UK stores that's one of the main reasons I haven't been buying apps/games there. I think it's the same everywhere else but the US.
Ok, I understand. What I meant was, is the cost of optimizing it for Android higher than iOS? Cause Android has a much wider hardware/software range. If its the same, then you should really do some writings. Lots of devs look down upon Android and say it is hard developing for Android, piracy bla bla bla. Yet you show otherwise, and that you can in fact make more on Android! You can change such perception!
It doesn't take long now, but it's been a long road and we still get occasional complaints about compat. It's not an easy option though to be fair, fragmentation is a nightmare.
What I don't understand is then how did he manage to rack up almost 1.5 k posts before getting exterminated?
Ikaruga released outside Japan today: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ggee.vividruntime.gg_1638
Ikaruga just became available but it might only be available on the Japanese play store. Tried to buy it but no joy for us shmup fans.
