Exclusivity like this doesn't seem like a good (or, rather, lasting) business model for mobile games. This event disparity is the like the equivalent of giving a full expansion pack to Playstation while the Xbox version is only available for 49.99.
This isn't even a situation where I can run out and purchase an Android phone to continue getting the expanded content. I have an Android tablet and run an alt account on it, but there's no way to for me to bring my iOS account on that Android tablet, so even if I choose one device over another, there's no opportunity to keep the same game going. The Android game is at a completely different level, has different toons, is on a different shard, has a different arena payout, everything. The biggest difference for me is that I've got my credit card linked to my Apple account whereas there's nothing on Google Play.
There is no remedy for this as-is and all this does is alienate a user base that historically pays more across its platform. I'm still very dissatisfied with the Wedge/Biggs thing a few weeks ago. Yes, I benefited from gaining Wedge shards since I was in the process of gaining, but it didn't seem fair to me that iOS got Wedge and Android got Biggs. The pair work together well, but Biggs has been freely available for months, while Wedge has a single avenue through the Cantina, not to mention that Wedge alone is a very strong character, whereas Biggs alone is almost junk. On the flip side of that, Biggs' ship is far better than Wedge's, so in my slow march towards Zetas, gaining a stronger Biggs is a far better deal. Players should have been given the option of one versus the other, or just been given both.
EA/CG must either compensate with providing the same event to iOS users or providing a set of free crystals that would be roughly the equivalent of what it would take to try gain the new character through chromium packs. Obviously, one has a greater cost to EA/CG than the other, but this is the only remedy that makes things equal across the mobile OSes.
IOS users have had to deal with MULTIPLE "Samsung" free crystal packs going to Android users over the past year, and have had to just sit here and take it, but this is just unacceptable and a remedy must be offered, and quickly.