[traspler]

Mostly time and hassle I would imagine. Apples requirements also shifted in the meantime so you might also be forced to provide more info/pictures/etc. which again comes down to time and hassle.

[DaveSapien]

Yeah, spread that over 20 games/apps. It can really mount up, I can think of other indie game dev's that only publish on iOS that their games are now forever lost.

It's a real cultural loss.

[lupire]

Publishing only on proprietary OS in the first place is a cultural loss.

[ChuckNorris89]

Hmmm, if only we had some cross platform framework that worked in every browser even before the iPhone was invented. /s

[scarface74]

You mean the one that could barely run on 1Ghz phones with 1GB of RAM that the company behind it said they could have gotten it to run on a 128MB RAM first gen iPhone with a 400Mhz processor if Apple had allowed them?

[Wowfunhappy]

I'd like to see how a web app of similar complexity would run on the same hardware. For all that people remember Flash being slow, remember the era of hardware it was running on.

[scarface74]

By the time the iPhone was introduced, PC hardware was well into the GHz era with multiple GBs of RAM. The phone was much more constrained and didn’t have disk swapping.

[phantomathkg]

Are we saying those games on Nintendo, Sega, PlayStation and XBox are not part of 20 century culture?

[tremon]

No, we're saying that those games are not part of 21st century culture, which makes them culturally lost to time.