Hi pware and Everybody.
Wholbr, Impressive stuff, particularly the realism - at times I thought I was watching real video footage and not a computer generated simulation. I note that "Infinite Flight" is available on Windows 10 Phone and iOS while "X-Plane 11" seems to be currently available only on 64 bit desktop and laptop systems running Win 7 (and above), OS X (10.10 and above) and Steam OS (+ Linux). I don't have any Android or iOS devices, just Win 10 (including a Win 10 phone) and Ubuntu, so I have to base my views on iOS and Android on other sources.
But, my main concern with Android still stands. The term used in the industry is "fragmentation" where the OS is split into many different versions (or, more particularly in the case of Android, "flavours") with updates controlled by the device manufacturers and carrier service providers, not the OS creators as is the case with Apple and Microsoft. This is creating headaches for enterprise IT management with different employees using different Android versions with some versions very specifically tied to the device manufacturer, Samsungs flavour of Android being one such example.
My (still ill-informed) opinions only
pware, you are quite right in stating that X-Plane 11 is not at this point in time available on android devices. However, the release of version 11 is expected in the very near future, so in the meantime here is a YouTube video of the current android release X-Plane 10.
YouTube video starts here: -
https://youtu.be/lpkpolSeyQg
In regard to your concern with what has become known as the "fragmentation" of the devices running on the android platform, then that is a concern that has been raised very often in the four years since the establishment of the platform. Indeed, it has often been stated that it could eventually bring about the collapse of the platform, but so far that has been a long way from reality, with android devices now providing nine out of every ten mobile devices sold worldwide.
The vast majority of Android devises run on Arm chipset technology based in Qualcomm professors. The forgoing would seem to make for "a reasonable programming licence" for the huge numbers of Android devices in operation throughout the world. Evidence to the forgoing can be found by way of the now near two point eight million applications that have come into existence on the Google Playstore in the four years since Google play was brought into being.
in the above, without doubt it does take more planning and work to create apps for the Android platform, but it is obvious based on the above that it is not as difficult as (those who shall be nameless) would have us believe. Among the huge number of apps on Google play there are (as with the DLS) both good and bad, exelent and unworkable. Within the forgoing the device manufacturers often have their own apps stores, but they all subscribe to ensuring that all apps will work within the basic Android framework no matter how much they may have changed the front and back ends of the operating system for use on their devices.
As someone who has taken an interest in Google since 2003 and the Android platform in general for the last fithteen months, it is the innovation and speed of development that myself and many others find so interesting. For unlike Microsoft who sat behind their Windows OS paywall for so many years and now have their shareholders paying the price for that management lack of inovations, it is Google along with Amazon and Facebook that have now taken up the mantle of creativity that Microsoft held for so many years prior to the millennium.
In the forgoing, should any person download an app from the playstore that will not run on their device then Google provide a fifteen minute window (often thirty) for a full and immediate refund provided that the app is deleted by way of the playstore from where it was downloaded.
However the problem of apps not running on devices is nearly always caused people trying to run most recent apps such as simulation on older devices which do not have the processing power.
Now where have we heard of that problem before.
Bill
