So what does EA make of Android?

It's interesting that so much as been made of games. Android is exploding without good or compelling games. So, I guess the real question is- do games actually matter to the success of a phone? I would think that a solid productivity app roster, a good camera, a solid media suite, good GPS, pleasurable UI, and a good phone services are what matters. Android is basically devouring market share from WinMo, Symbian, and now Palm. So for the average customer- which gamers are not- does it even matter?

'The reasons are unclear'?

No - its simple: the Android ecosystem is not yet ready for serious gaming, in several important ways. But these are nothing that can't be fixed, with just a little time & effort.

Here's what Google must do, in order to guarantee the interest of big-time game developers.:

1) Show them a solid user-base, in the millions (say, ~5M - 10M) of units.,.

(2) ...*all* of which can run - basically - the same game and provide the same level of gameplay.

3) Fix Android Market so as to show app-prices in a single, uniform currency...

4) ...and convince the cell providers to start supporting paid apps, or give them any associated tech support, if that's their problem.

5) Provide a secure app-to-SD installation solution...

6) ...and/or convince the hardware manufacturers to include more on-board RAM. 8Gb would be a fine start.

That's it. No guesswork or rocket science involved. :)

a lot of the paid games i tried were rubbish ports of java games added with the fact one game taking up many MB's on phone with not much application memory space available, developers will have to take a different approach of downloading the main app then having the gfx and music download to the sdcard.