10-12-2016, 06:33 PM | #11 |
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Re: Character Assistant for other OS
No, the main reason is that there's not enough money in a GURPS Character App to make it worthwhile to pay a programmer to make it. GURPS is a niche market, iOS is a niche market, GURPS players who would buy an iOS character creator App is a niche of a niche market.
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10-13-2016, 01:18 AM | #12 |
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Re: Character Assistant for other OS
iOS isn't niche. Its worldwide market share in mobile devices is 14.8%, but that's heavily concentrated in wealthy countries, and selling software for it is usually much more profitable than for Android.
However, Apple makes it difficult for software to be portable between it and non-Apple platforms. Other companies try to modify this: Microsoft Xamarin lets you run C# code on many platforms, but sadly not any flavour of VB. GURPS is far too niche a market for it to be worth paying a developer to write an iOS version of Character Assistant. It would have to be someone's hobby project, and there would still be the problem of SJG's lack of control over the availability of the product on Apple's app store.
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10-13-2016, 02:43 AM | #13 |
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Re: Character Assistant for other OS
14.8% is fairly niche, and "mobile devices" is not exactly the target market for a character creation program for a game that is as information dense as GURPS. I expect most users would want to use something with a much larger screen, and when you go past phones into tablets or real computers the iOS/OSX market share gets smaller the bigger the screen gets.
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