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No offence Google, but I think I'll take my game middleware from...y'know...people who make games for a living.

In seriousness, this has no hope of contending in an already crowded space.




This is a good point. I'll take it further, Google rarely seems to participate in the platforms they create. Look at Android, is there is a single pay app by Google? How many non-stock apps have teams dedicated to them (in other words, not 20% time projects)? Why would I invest my time in a platform when the parent company won't do the same?


Google Maps, GMail, Calendar, YouTube, Google+, and a bunch more. Why do you rule out "stock" apps?


I'm not ruling them out, I'm just saying that they invest only the bare minimum into their own platforms. Not a single pay app?

Look at what Microsoft did when they created a gaming platform. They bought Bungie.

Then look at Google and Chrome OS. They created 1, 1 new app for it (Google Talk), the rest were all existing applications built for backwards compatibility with older browsers.


AngryBirds for Chrome and Android is built using this lib




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