Maybe this should be pointed out on BL’s FB page or emailed to gw for a definitive answer as to why they’re not using that standard.

Either way I refuse to believe that gw purposefully neglect a large part of their audience, it makes no financial or business sense to do so unless there is a specific reason otherwise unknown.

But functionality is tangential to my argument. I think we see this differently on a fundamental level. In an abstract way your argument is that a man goes into a tool store to buy a wrench for a specific job and that wrench is only available in metric. Not his fault, no harm no foul. However I argue that a man is building a project that a customer has to assemble themselves (needs product and tablet both), the man chooses to only use metric bolts knowing full well a portion of the market only has standard wrenches. It’s a choice right or wrong they chose and someone doesn’t get a book shelf as a result. The argument that they can’t buy the kit for a 5 shelf book shelf but they can but the one for a 3 shelf book shelf doesn’t enter into it because they still can’t get what they want.

Frankly my friends issues with an out of date iPad isn’t Games Workshop’s problem. Their decision to make more limited products on non-apple plateforms is their problem. You are right it may be a cost issue, or a staffing issue, or a tools issue. but it’s their issue and they choose not to tell their customers anything but “iPad only”. I just don’t think it’s healthy for a hobby that GW is purportedly interested in growing to have the best quality experience be tied to a specific device.

Choosing to have the flagship product for a game be tied to a product that is already exclusive due to price is, in its self, an exclusionary decision. Its true that a product exists for lower priced tablet markets but it is inherently different and thus a person must “settle” for a product even when they want something else. It’s the same idea as Limited edition codex’s in print. Its true a standard edition exists but it doesn’t make the limited edition any less exclusionary. Except of course that some of these products won’t see physical print and may thus are inherently exclusive to digital adopters only. I personally feel that this exclusive practice of putting the best product on iPad devices is detrimental to the hobby but that doesn’t have to be your interpretation.

Its true that the practice does include some outlet for those without an iPad. But its still a form of exclusivity that limits the potential customers even from within the limited pool of those who have already adopted the 40k game system. This is what i mean by a walled garden, you have a limited selection of customers and you actively section them off into camps based on what device they support and whether that are even buying via digital releases. This isn’t necessarily a malicious decision on the part of GW but it doesn’t make it a good practice in my eyes.

He also should open his own disquss account too.