Hi Cara, Point well taken. I guess right now I am just looking for something for myself. You know what I mean?
If I could develop games and apps for Android to sell that would be great, but that is not my goal here so support issues really is not that big a concern. I figure whatever I write for Android will be for my own use, for my specific phone, and if someone else wants to play that game or use that app no problem. However, I'm not in it for making money selling software for Android. I merely want a decent phone that does what I want, for a reasonable price, that allows me to develop stuff for it for my own uses without having to jailbreak the phone or invest a lot of money in hardware and software to develop for the phone. If there is a way to develop apps and games for iOS using a Windows PC or a Linux system I'll consider an iPhone. If not then that is a total deal breaker as I am not going to buy a Mac just to develop stuff for my iPhone. Cheers! On 11/9/13, Cara Quinn <[email protected]> wrote: > Thomas, > > another thing to consider is the level of accessibility features that any > given user will have, based on the OS they are running. > > I.E. one user may be running android 4.4 and another user may be running > something considerably earlier than that. Both may be usable but not equal > in terms of ease of accessibility, so accessible games would need to take > this situation into account, as not all android phones can easily run the > same OS versions. > > LookTel has been wanting to release our software on Android for a while now > and this has been the issue that has consistently been a deciding factor to > wait. The differences in implementations of accessibility in the OS > versions. > > The last thing you want to deal with is wider support issues rather than a > simpler support model. While Apple has its own little quirks to deal with > they're so minor in comparison that they're pretty much non-existent. > > Just to give an example, while in the current version of Android you can do > a two-finger tap and hold for speech to start, you were not always able to > do this. So for people wanting to use our apps, this itself, was a > non-starter because it meant that someone may need sighted help or need to > go through a bit of work just to get the OS to talk. There's something to be > said for the easy button! :) Know what I mean?! :) > > I'm personally very interested in Android both for myself and for LookTel > but for now, iOS is definitely where I'm at… > > Anyway, hope this helps. and if anyone has any corrections or other > insights, please do chime in? > > Smiles, > > Cara :) --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
