December 10th 2011 11:47 am PT

Android app is very limited to few devices

Not compatible with the Motorola Atrix for some reason.

It’s not compatible with most phones, its only compatible with my HP Touchpad (with Android) while it’s not available on my HTC desire and HTC Desire HD

The app looks great. When is it going to be available in Europe?

Not compatible with HTC EVO either…

What a waste to only make it for a couple devices using Android. MS owns a good stake in Android now it only benefits then to see it grow

Why in the world wouldn’t this be compatible with all current Android phones?! Absolutely ridiculous. You guys aren’t doing this out of your garage. You’re a gigantic company making an app for a gigantic franchise. Really, really preposterous.

Looking good, just purchased ATLAS, works fine on my iPhone 4s

Not compatible with HTC Desire S for anyone wondering…

WAY TO FAIL!!!!!!!!!!!! I”LL STICK TO MY BUNGIE MOBILE APP ON MY G2!!!!!

Not compatible with Droid Incredible. What a joke. It’s not doing anything that special if it only needs Froyo.

Not available for my country… way to fail

chiming in, Android not compatible with my Droid 3 >.<

upload apk then, work on every device

I don’t know if this app is available in other countries beside The Greatest Country In The World (US) but in Poland isn’t available for download in Android Market. Dear Major Nelson, what should I do now? I have bought games in Poland even without subtitles in Polish. Do I need to return my games to retailer since they probably was imported illegally or they have ‘licensing’ problems of some kind?

5 bucks for atlas? man such a ripoff for nothing, map viewing? lol who really plays halo nowadays, when u have Skyrim

HALO NEEDS AN UPGRADE

5 bucks for atlas? man such a ripoff for nothing, map viewing? lol who really plays halo nowadays, when u have Skyrim

HALO NEEDS AN UPGRADE

I think you should blame the fragmented Android platform rather than the developer of the app.

I’d think that it will take a little while for the App to become approved in the various localized stores. Be patient, check again in *shrugs* 2 days?

Just curious, but where are you located? I’m getting the feeling that the App is not yet approved in European stores.

Next we need an Xbox Live app for Android!

Way to alienate a huge portion of your potential user base the phone won’t even work with any HTC Phones

I could do that, but then I’d be a fool.

I get if they want to limit it to the newest Android versions (this app even says Android 2.2 and up). That’s fine. But come on, they can’t even make it work within the stated compatibility limits. Countless apps work just fine on all kinds of Android devices. There’s no valid excuse for this.

Fragmentation is unlikely to be the actual cause given the app’s featureset. Different resolutions, varying 3D graphics capabilities…these things can affect how well apps perform on a device. Alternately, an app may have been targeted for a specific device due to an uncommon feature (such as the HDMwiN app for the Evo 4G, which provides improved support for its HDMI-out). Lastly, there are apps such as the ones for Netflix (no longer an issue there, but it used to be) and Hulu Plus, where fragmentation is a problem more easily attributed to lawyers rather than programmers — the apps will frequently work on devices not explicitly approved if the APK is edited to include such devices on its internal whitelist, but the content providers may complain for whatever reason.

If there is an actual reason beyond developer incompetence for the large number of devices that the app supposedly does not work on, the most likely culprit would be the ATLAS service. If the data is already built into the app (rather than being provided as a separate download when payment is rendered), then this may be a poorly thought out attempt at preventing rooted devices from bypassing the payment requirement. (I say poorly thought out because not only is it reported to work on the HP Touchpad — a device which had no official Android release in the first place, but that methods such as the Android Market Licensing service already exist which can be used for such purposes.)

Lol not having compatibility with any HTC device is insane. 

I couldn’t believe it at first.  I was like “How the heck do you get this thing to insta… wait… No.. WTF?!?!?”

How anyone takes Android seriously with their fragmentation is amazing!.

well actually it’s apps like this that cause the illusion of fragmentation. There’s no reason why none of my phones can run the app; HTC Sensation, Samsung Galaxy S or LG Optimus 2X… but there you go. None of them can install it. The only Android devices I can install it on are my Asus EeePad Transformer, and rather bizarrely, my EeePC, which isn’t even an official Android thing.

No compatibility with my Motorola Electrify

Sweet, didn’t know the Bungie app was available on Android yet. 

Super lame that the Waypoint app has some stupid unspecified restriction. Thought it was an issue with my custom firmware, tried it on a stock G2 and had the same issue. Lame.

Please don’t release or announce the release of high-profile apps like this unless it is proven to work on all “supported” devices.  HTC Android devices are incompatible with the app right now, regardless of Droid OS version.  Rage.

Seriously needs to increase its compatibility range to include all the phones that SHOULD be compatible, according to the listed minimum requirements. Too bad you have to download an app from the Android Market before you can rate it. If you could rate based on incompatibility, this app would likely have a very low rating. 

Not compatible with my Android from the android market place so not installing.

Why do you keep killing all these compelling reasons to switch to  Windows Phone 7?? 

Samsung Galaxy S T959 is not compatible… WTF.!

Halo needs Bungie’s old school…

EPIC FAIL.! IT doesn’t work with anything as I can read…

The Bungie app is considerably better.

i don’t have android on my HP touchpad anymore so i can’t 

whole lotta bitchin going on

Galaxy S II not compatible.

It’s a great job that you have to download the App before rating it, that means YOU give your own opinion and not those of the masses around you.  I think props should be given to Microsoft for developing on different platforms, you don’t see Android making apps for iOS???

“Oh look here comes another bandwagon!”

works on the atrix 4g
 

All this Android fragmentation is why I switched to iOS. App works great on my iPhone 4s.

Thank God I went iPhone 4S, I nearly bought an Android phone.

Works great with the Samsung Focus, but it is a Windows Phone.

My Droid Global 2 works

Poor windows phone. Anyone who buys one is simply a tool. There is no reason to buy a Windows phone. It has like 2% market share after a year on the market. Pathetic.

the reason waypoint for iPhone is crap is because it won’t work for iOS 4.2.1 it works for iOS 4.3 which means ipod touch 2g can’t run it

I love how many people are too dumb to make things work with their phone, I suggest if your a moron get an iPhone they do everything for you, they just aren’t as powerful and have to be Jailbroken to make them useful.  However if you have a little sense and want full control over you phone and don’t mind having to know what the hell your doing, get Android.  If you just want to be laughed at buy a Windows Phone and stay behind the times.

@Henrick Underseth, get a new iPod, don’t you know if your gonna be an apple fanboy you have to buy a new device EVERY year if not sooner.

By the way, works flawlessly with my old Droid X.

I’m on mobile right now, but i hope someone with the Android apk just posts it (it is a free app, right? Or is this the ‘paid’ atlas i heard about?). I’m not condoning piracy here, but compatability fears are always overblown. My phone wasn’t compatible with Netflix or OnLive’s official apps, either, but the Evo Shift 4G runs them both flawlessly.

Just glad i also have an Arrive WP7 device!

Nu

All I can say is your pointless comment irked me enough to warrant my display of disgust at your inedptitude towards the content of which you clearly have an uninformed opinion.

There seems to be a lot of problems from a particular market segment.
Makes you wonder why they thought it was a good idea in the first place lol.

Only on the US app store…

Well said. Anyone who discounts a Windows Phone because they’ve heard “That MS mobile OS is lame” is a tool. Get with the times. Windows Phone is a breath of fresh air. Or, of course, you could go back to your rows of icons. I hear they were “in” 3 years ago.

loser

I’m more entertained by the number of posts who cite the appearance of a
Halo app (or Xbox live last week) as evidence of the downfall of the
platform as a whole. Obviously being able to check in to your Halo progress was a major feature of Windows phones, and now you can do that on other phones there are no other reasons to invest in one.

no nexus-one love?  WEIRD!

Free????? hahaha , yea .. um no

apparently Microsoft doesn’t like us old iPhone users. My iphone 3G cant handle anything microsoft puts out

I have the HTC Evo with the 2.3 droid version and it says it is not compatible why?

why is Microsoft helping out their competition??? You would think they would want people to come to wp7?? but apparently they believe in iphone more then wp7. 

Seems not available in Germany !!!! Why

nope, it’s just that Android platform is too fragmented.