Google Asserts No Android Fragmentation
April 12, 2012
In the iPhone versus Android mobile battle, Android may be about to suffer a huge loss.Tech News World recently reported on the issue of fragmentation causing Android developers to flee in the article “Is Fragmentation Breaking the Android Dev’s Will?”
According to the article, due to the continued fragmentation of its operating system, developers are starting to lose interest in developing apps for Android. Based on information derived from a survey conducted by Appcelerator and IDC at the beginning of the new year, Android phone app development fell by nearly five percentage points over the past quarter to about 79 percent and interest in Android tablets fell just over 2 percent to about 66 percent.
The article states:
“Google’s (Nasdaq: GOOG) own figures show that many different versions of Android are current being used. Google statistics regarding the number of active devices accessing Google Play over two weeks ending March 5 found that 62 percent ran Gingerbread, or Android 2.3. Another roughly 25 percent ran Froyo, or Android 2.2. Eclair, or Android 2.1, was used by 6.6 percent of the devices.”
However, will some mobile outfits just take the open source version of Android and make an Amazon-like version? We don’t know but you may find these phones presaging the future.
Jasmine Ashton, April 12, 2012
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There is no such thing as fragmentation on Android. I bought an android phone and it came with whatever OS version it came with (I have no idea what version it is) nor do I care what version it is. All I care is that it works. Compared to Apple, it does circles around iOS. “fragmentation” only seems to matter to developers (i personally believe this is just made up by apple shills to try to discredit android since it has overtaken iOS devices world wide).