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This is another great show of how serious is the technological illiteracy in gaming.

Smartphone users are becoming less and less aware than the usual, and now those who want to download outside of Google Play or the App Store, some go right here in free indie game sites, there are files for Android phones, but unfortunately, there are those who don't know that there are, and they start downloading the files for Windows, Mac & Linux without any kind of computing knowledge.

Although the profile says the platforms that are targeted, they don't know what means Windows or Linux, and not even the operating system of their phone (is Android & iOS).

I leave some images in spanish with translated subtitles:

Picture when they start to download in the opposite direction

A terrible mistake happens on the Internet, and nobody notices. people downloading software from PC to mobile and vice versa.

Windows users who download programs for Android have a possibility, using with an emulator, while those on Android, they don't have any. The Windows emulators for Android, like Exagear or Wine for Android, are still very primitive, apart from that they need an x86 processor for the correct emulation, since most phones have an ARM processor, which brings too many problems.

Imagine showing the consequence of downloading a PC game on your phone

This software is not available for your device.

Why is this happening? very easy: Programs for Windows have an encoding of .exe, and the Android the .apk, that means that if you have an .exe program on an Android device, it just will not work because it isn't compatible.

In Google Play, App Store, Steam, Nintendo eShop, etc., they have a system of specific purchases and downloads for the determined devices, Internet however, there aren't exists such regulations, so it's easier to make mistakes and ignore the operating system requirements necessary for the optimal operation.

If you don't believe me, I've got evidence from the analytical downloads:

The users who downloaded in the Google App for Android, are the easiest to detect.


As you can see, those who use the Google app for Android, have downloaded it incorrectly without reading the profile in the section of available platforms, or to hurry up, besides, not even a account has been done before to put a comment to the author of the file because it doesn't work on his device. I don't know exactly, for example, they enter them from YouTube links, but some of them probably have done it incorrectly from the mobile version.

My conclusion

This seems to me to be dark times for computing and free PC gaming. As the "Post-PC" times progresses, this kind of erroneous actions will become more and more normal. The incompatibility of the programs for Windows, Mac & Linux in Android/iOS and the lack of devices with the same operating systems for computers, will be a problem even greater than the end of the net neutrality in United States.

Computer users are 1.2 billion, fronts to 2.3 billion phone/tablet users, and the gap continues to increase. It has been very fast, and developers of computer software emulation aren't giving them enough time to perfect it.

Apple after the launch of the iPad Pro, you should realize that updating your iOS system is also compatible with Mac software, it would be perfect for the product, and Microsoft, should stop making restricted versions of their Windows 10, such as the 10 S, the 10 Arm and the Polaris, and create ways to recover their well-deserved fame, such as the Windows icon, which is too simplified are with the blue, and put back its symbolic colors that made the Windows system memorable.

For now, the only way to play PC games on phones/tablets is through remote control and streaming, such as Liquid Sky, Remotr Streamer, Rainway & Cloud Gaming.

Remotr example



In the case of Remotr Streamer, it's, for the moment, the best and the most accessible way to play Windows PC games on Android/iOS devices.

Users who stupidly download PC games on Android/iOS in Youtube
Second chapter of this big technological illiteracy in gaming, this time focused on social networks, include Youtube.


Smartphone & Tablet users are becoming less and less aware than the usual, include in the social networks as Youtube. (If you don't know what this article is about, read the previous article which is above.)

This article will tell you several steps of an example of why there are users who can't read in the description of the videos with download links, the requirements necessary for a software type to a good work, and go over it, downloading by error Windows/Mac software on an mobile/tablet from Android/iOS:

1. When they enter in the YouTube App

The user has entered the YouTube app and wants to see a video of a game.

2. Find the video in the search

Find the video of the game he wants to download, in this example Minecraft.

3. After entering on the game download video

This is when the users starts to take out their instinct of mistake and stupidity. It happens when they have seen the video, it has seemed cool without having seen the details of what makes a game for PC/Mac (like mouse cursors and windows), and they go directly to the download links.

4. They completely ignore the warnings and OS requirements necessary to the well use of the software, caused by hurry or didn't knowing how to read them

After liking the video without having understood the details, they go to the description, the links of the software download, and before doing so, there are warning and requirement of OS for a good functioning of the software. There are videos that put the warning in a more demanding and detailed so that they don't enter the links on the wrong devices, or if the user didn't know how to read the specific language (Spanish or English), and came from a country like for example Malaysia, and he was wrong, the channel that realized it translates it into on their official Malay language. But all these practices seem to be useless for the most illiterate and reluctant users of reading, they don't even leave it for later and go to take their Windows or Mac computer in their house or their laptop from their travel, and then return in the same video to download the software or from the search engine, So because of their ignorance, they enter on the links equally.

In the example of Minecraft also happens, that by not having read the available operating systems, believing that it's the Pocket Edition, but the truth it's the Java or the WIndows 10 Edition.

5. Consequence of downloading a PC/Mac software in a mobile/tablet from Android/iOS

As explained in the previous article, Windows programs are in .exe coding and Android programs in .apk, and a .apk operating system isn't compatible with .exe programs, so because of their ignorance, this happened after the download. Also, not even made a YouTube account were made to comment on why the program doesn't work on their mobile/tablet. And the worst is that they can even send the link they found to the Facebook Messenger or WhatsApp so that they made the same mistake as them.

Conclusion

Today, the 80% of youtube visualizations go to smartphones and tablets, it may be the most "comfortable" practice to watch the videos, but it's very bad for developers of freeware for PC/Mac, to see in the analytics of devices, there are days that haven't seen nobody from a computer, which means a maximum probability of someone making the big mistake of entering a software link for PC/Mac on an Android/iOS device or even SmartTV, and not becoming available. Watching a video isn't the bad thing, what is bad is the before mentioned.

Recommended Solution

The solution would be something similar when we make translations of the description of the videos, make descriptions for web version (which usually uses Windows or Mac) and mobile version (which usually uses Android or iOS), It would be special for videos with download links, since in the same way the great majority of these cases would be reduced.