Eric Hautemont at Days of Wonder: “…In terms of Android tablets, frankly the market is not there right now, the numbers of tablets purchased is a small market. Now in terms of Android phones there is a much larger market, large as or larger than i-devices, depending on whose numbers you believe. There are two fold issues, one is the number of platforms, it is difficult to get the game to work on every android phone that is out there. And we care a lot about the user experience, and we do not feel there is way for us to develop games on android because there are too many platform variations. And the amounting tweaking and individual testing that would be done is just impossible. I am sure in the future things will be easier, but it is not there yet and we do not want to be pioneers there. There other thing that is holding us back is the monetization. There are too many apps stores on the android and the issue is that none of them have the command like Apple does on the ipad. What’s great about the iOS platform is that Apple has a relationship with millions of people. So if you can get on the app store with the challenge of being noticed, the challenge of developing the good games but if you can do the good things the downloads will follow. Our idea with the android is that we are not sure we could make money with it, right or wrong that is our choice. Because we are a small company, we cannot afford to develop stuff that may or may not be usable down the road. So for now we are taking a wait and see approach. We don’t want to be there first but when we do go there we want to have the best applications. We don’t think we have the tools to do that right now.”

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