Are androids and Iphones declared as "required" for playing this game?

No, you need to stop repeating yourself and to actually read what was typed in previous posts. The solution IS AVAILABLE, FOR FREE, TO EVERYONE.

That's not true. Let's say I'm scavenging on Ilum and people want me to run a Flashpoint. I've got to quick travel if available, then board a shuttle to an orbital station. Run to an elevator, load an airlock, run to ship door, load the ship. Run up to my pilot chair, open starmap and find Fleet. Select it, brief load, run to back of ship and load Fleet. The whole process takes about 10 minutes. 10 minutes everyone has to wait on me. If I had the 60 min fleet pass, i could be there in 2 mins or less.

I totally forgot, there's no such thing as an Emergency Fleet Pass.

Or you can GET IN YOUR SHIP AND FLY THERE.

Which takes all of like 3 minutes.

Emergency fleet pass is great! Once every 18 hours. Note that the official answer does not even mention the emergency fleet pass.

The "solution" comes with a condition, use a security key. Hey, that's a good thing, security, right? I vote for expanding this idea - no speeders unless you have a security key. Not a problem right? See, it's not voluntary anymore, it becomes almost mandatory.

To the OP - I hope that this emulator thing will work for you and thanks for the person who brought it up.

Personally I'm not going to utilize this, mainly because I don't have an issue with travel time and because I decided I don't want the potential hassle with a security key etc.

Well this sucks. I was hoping Bioware wouldn't cave to to the "OMG GOTTA GET THERE NAO OR MY HEAD WILL FALL OFF" crowd and leave the immersive orbital stations and the rest as a required link to get from one place to another.

There is nothing wrong with the orbital stations and the rest, the problem is the loading screens. If they remove those, they will have an MMO friendly system which is fast enough without making people stare at those damned load screens, which is what really pisses them off.

You know, I honestly can't get all this complaining about travel in SWTOR. Sometimes you had to spend 10 or more minutes flying in WoW to get from one place to another. People are just getting lazier and more demanding every day.

Three minutes? What am I? Made of minutes?

No, being as logical as you means we can't come to the forum and nag and whine!

Complete lie. 10 mins.

But "how much it is needed" is the whole basis of your title and argument. You are stating it is required and it clearly isn't.

Your computer must really really suck then