I feel like the reason I prefer Android is because it's so faceted, and available for anyone to use to adopt for whatever use-case. I've owned an mp3 player that uses Android as a base, and I think it's being used in appliance dashboards and whatnot. That Android was built with this in mind leads it to be naturally harder to test for.
And while testing in Android isn't braindead easy, they have done a lot to make it easier on developers, from providing a really good emulator with images of all the various android versions, to having APIs designed to do feature detection, and have documented best practices to handling different sized/oriented layouts.
Maybe somebody should build a startup that creates a bridge between hardware owners and software developers. Let device owners have a client that downloads and runs test cases in exchange for money/points/lulz, paid for by developers wishing to support that hardware.
And while testing in Android isn't braindead easy, they have done a lot to make it easier on developers, from providing a really good emulator with images of all the various android versions, to having APIs designed to do feature detection, and have documented best practices to handling different sized/oriented layouts.
Maybe somebody should build a startup that creates a bridge between hardware owners and software developers. Let device owners have a client that downloads and runs test cases in exchange for money/points/lulz, paid for by developers wishing to support that hardware.