Following the last update for the birds in anger for Android, Rovio received many complaints about ad placements and the overall drop in game performance, and your cries were forced to hand over a title. First place: they had to cut several devices from their list of Android phones supported. For those of you running one of the following combinations (including T-Mobile G2, oddly), I'm sorry:
- Droid Eris
- HTC Dream
- HTC Hero
- HTC Magic / Sapphire 3G / MyTouch
- HTC Tattoo
- HTC Wildfire
- Huawei Ideos/U8150
- LG Ally/Aloha/VS740
- LG GW620/Eve
- Motorola Backflip/MB300
- Motorola Cliq / Dexter
- Samsung Acclaim
- Samsung Moment/M900
- Samsung Spica/i5700
- Samsung Transform
- Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 mini
- T-Mobile G1
- T-Mobile G2
For the rest of you, if you do not have one of these devices are not on Android 1.5, and are not running a custom ROM (of course), Rovio will continue to support you . This does not mean that the above list of devices are currently dead in the water, if they make a lighter version for those of you on less than capable handsets. It is an unfortunate side effect of the ecosystem that is Android and all the curve balls it tends to take a developer.
In a world iOS, simply write the code once and we know that it is optimized for each phone that was sold. Android some people will even the most capable aircraft and some are even less capable, but they all want the same applications and same games. The optimized version of angry birds will have no less content than the current version, although as they pointed out that the changes will only help improve performance for devices that can not follow.
I can not imagine that this practice of having to manage multiple versions of Angry Birds on a platform where "write once, run anywhere" has become the norm, but what to do if People on older devices want to play the newest and most demanding. At least they listen well, guys, and you will have your version of smooth Angry birds fast enough (even if no real timetable has been given)
[Via Rovio ]
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