![]() According to market analytics company Gartner, Windows Phone device sales saw a decline from 8.27 million units in the first quarter of 2015 year to just 2.4 million units early this year - a global dip from 2.5 percent to 0.7 percent of the global market. Rovio’s decision to abandon Microsoft’s floundering Windows Phone platform doesn’t exactly come as a surprise. Windows Central notes that Angry Birds for Windows Phone hasn’t been updated for more than a year, and that Angry Birds Space and Angry Birds Star Wars had yet to adopt Microsoft’s Universal Windows Platform - cross-compatibility with Windows 10 and Windows Phone devices. The best Windows 11 feature? Here’s what developers and fans voted for This brave developer got Windows running on a Surface DuoĪfter 9 years on Android and Windows, here’s why I’m all-in on Apple’s ecosystem “ decided to discontinue development of Angry Birds and Bad Piggies PC Games to focus on providing a better experience for these games on mobile devices … The only devices that are still supported and updated are Android and iOS devices.” Rovio has already removed direct links to its Windows Store listings from the official Angry Birds website, although the games remain visible and available for purchase as of publication time. ![]() “ no longer developed for Windows Phones,” the customer service representative said. The change in policy affects Rovio’s extensive crop of Windows apps, which include Angry Birds and its many derivations - Angry Birds Star Wars II, Angry Birds Epic, Angry Birds Rio, Angry Birds Go! - plus the spin-off title Bad Piggies. In an e-mail response to a self-described “concerned customer,” a spokesperson said that the company will discontinue all development on Windows 10 and Windows Phone in the near future. Twin DesignRovio, the Finnish game developer behind enduring fad Angry Birds, is abandoning Microsoft’s Windows platform.
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