So once again I’m confused… Remember at Apple’s Q4 earnings report Steve Jobs talked about Android fragmentation and specifically pointed out that Rovio was having trouble programming Angry Birds for Android because of Android fragmentation. And the very next day the guys at Rovio tweeted

“Did we say at any point it was a nightmare developing on Android? Errr, Nope, no we didn’t. It wasn’t.”

And that little tweet was the tweet heard round the world as websites and bloggers picked this up and ridiculed Jobs for his statement. Fair dues?

So tonight, here’s a blog piece from Rovio apologising to Android users because so many people were contacting them about the latest updates on Angry Birds on Android phones because they were having problems running the update. The gist of their post:

With our latest update, we worked hard to bring Angry Birds to even more Android devices. Despite our efforts, we were unsuccessful in delivering optimal performance.

Right now we are running even more testing and resolving all the issues we have identified. We are also looking at all of the feedback we have received, and trying to improve the ad performance.

So the temporary solution as they try to sort things out is to unsupport 18 different Android phones and all Android phones running version 1.6.

Some Android devices not officially supported for now

We are aware that a number of our fans have had trouble running the game on their devices. For example, some older and lower performance Android devices are experiencing severe performance issues.

We are preparing a new solution for the next update, but for the time being, the Android devices listed below are not officially supported by Angry Birds:

  • Droid Eris
  • HTC Dream
  • HTC Hero
  • HTC Magic/Sapphire/Mytouch 3G
  • HTC Tattoo
  • HTC Wildfire
  • Huawei Ideos/U8150
  • LG Ally/Aloha/VS740
  • LG GW620/Eve
  • Motorola Backflip/MB300
  • Motorola Cliq/Dext
  • Samsung Acclaim
  • Samsung Moment/M900
  • Samsung Spica/i5700
  • Samsung Transform
  • Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 mini
  • T-Mobile G1
  • T-Mobile G2

Furthermore, devices running Android platform version below 1.6 or custom ROMs are not officially supported.

Did we say we were having problems programming Angry Birds for Anroid? errr, Nope…

Last laugh goes to Steve.