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ProfCrash · 11-19-2013, 02:27 PM

My concern now is that I have sunk a good amount into apps and that does make me feel like I am tied to Apple. Then again, while more of the apps that I like are showing up on Android, I would say about 75% of them are still IOS only.

I play a fair number of the strategic based board games (Puerto Rico, Agricola, Ticket To Ride, Settlers of Catan, Dominant Species, Tikal, that type of thing). They tend to be available on IOS first/only. Heck, Small World required a kickstarter to move the game to Android after it had been out on IOS for at least a year.

At least when I buy my books, I know that the books can be liberated and moved with me. Apps, not so much.

11-19-2013, 02:27 PM	#15
ProfCrash Tea Enthusiast Posts: 8,554 Karma: 75384937 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Somewhere in the USA Device: Kindle1, Kindle DX Graphite, K3 3G, IPad 3, PW2	My concern now is that I have sunk a good amount into apps and that does make me feel like I am tied to Apple. Then again, while more of the apps that I like are showing up on Android, I would say about 75% of them are still IOS only. I play a fair number of the strategic based board games (Puerto Rico, Agricola, Ticket To Ride, Settlers of Catan, Dominant Species, Tikal, that type of thing). They tend to be available on IOS first/only. Heck, Small World required a kickstarter to move the game to Android after it had been out on IOS for at least a year. At least when I buy my books, I know that the books can be liberated and moved with me. Apps, not so much.