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2016/02/11 09:18:45 (permalink)
Apparently Android is losing when it comes to receiving the latest content available, according to Digital Trends.
http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/what-is-android-fragmentation-and-can-google-ever-fix-it/
 
 
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    Re: Android losing in the Fragmentation Battle 2016/02/11 16:51:14 (permalink)
    Yeah its real hard to get all of your users to the latest IOS when you only make one model phone and that one phone is made by one company...
     
    I think in real life the only phones that matter are flagship devices when we compare android to apple. A $50 LG Virgin Mobile phone was stunted the minute I picked it up from RadioShack. However my three year old  LG G3 has android 5.1 and will be getting 6.0 soon.
     
     


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    Re: Android losing in the Fragmentation Battle 2016/02/12 00:40:10 (permalink)
    stalinx20
    Apparently Android is losing when it comes to receiving the latest content available, according to Digital Trends.
    http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/what-is-android-fragmentation-and-can-google-ever-fix-it/
     
     




     
    If anyone ever thought this wouldn't happen to an open system like Android, they didn't have a clue.
     
    All you have to do is take a look at Linux... sounds like a single OS, but they're many...
     

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    Re: Android losing in the Fragmentation Battle 2016/02/12 04:31:39 (permalink)
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    stalinx20
    Apparently Android is losing when it comes to receiving the latest content available, according to Digital Trends.
    http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/what-is-android-fragmentation-and-can-google-ever-fix-it/
     
     




     
    If anyone ever thought this wouldn't happen to an open system like Android, they didn't have a clue.
     
    All you have to do is take a look at Linux... sounds like a single OS, but they're many...
     


    Everyone has a different idea how to best do something and in an open OS, they allow it to happen. It's a self-fulfilling prophesy. There can't not be fragmentation in this sort of software ecosystem. That being said, I think Android is crap and this is one of the prime reasons.

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    Re: Android losing in the Fragmentation Battle 2016/02/12 05:46:01 (permalink)
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    stalinx20
    Apparently Android is losing when it comes to receiving the latest content available, according to Digital Trends.
    http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/what-is-android-fragmentation-and-can-google-ever-fix-it/
     
     




     
    If anyone ever thought this wouldn't happen to an open system like Android, they didn't have a clue.
     
    All you have to do is take a look at Linux... sounds like a single OS, but they're many...
     


    Everyone has a different idea how to best do something and in an open OS, they allow it to happen. It's a self-fulfilling prophesy. There can't not be fragmentation in this sort of software ecosystem. That being said, I think Android is crap and this is one of the prime reasons.


    Google has said it will try and control it's own hardware in the future for it's models so maybe this might help a little bit when the O/S is a bit more standardized. Then again it could easily backfire on them. Without Android that leaves Apple which charges any price they want as they have no competition at all. Their devices are good but too expensive for me. The other only players are Sailfish (which I've tried and hated), and Blackberry.  Blackberry is OK but I don't like the hardware. 
     
    Android 6 is actually not too bad but still could use some improvements. 

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    Re: Android losing in the Fragmentation Battle 2016/02/12 06:11:07 (permalink)
    I had always thought it was part of planned obsolescence!  If the OS got too old, people would purchase new phones to get the newer OS.  Hmmm!

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    Re: Android losing in the Fragmentation Battle 2016/02/12 17:53:56 (permalink)
    lol they are on version 6.0 and I'm still using 4.2 on my tablet and it's only a year old.....
     
    I'd never use android on a cellphone.
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    Re: Android losing in the Fragmentation Battle 2016/02/12 23:51:42 (permalink)
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    I had always thought it was part of planned obsolescence!  If the OS got too old, people would purchase new phones to get the newer OS.  Hmmm!




     
    This.
     
    Read my post above. Subtext is, everybody including Google knew this would happen. From the get go, it has been a central component of Android's value proposition (for companies). That's why Android took off so quickly (and a much better Blackberry OS didn't). It creates a business environment where planned obsolescence is built in.
     
    I'm no fan of Apple but they handle this *much* neater.
     

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