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Android Co-Founder: Fragmentation "an Overblown Issue"
curtwoodward writes "Sure, developers might pull their hair out trying to keep track of all the versions of the Android operating system scattered across hundreds of millions of mobile devices worldwide. But a co-founder of Android says the OS's fragmentation problem is being blown out of proportion. At an event this week in Boston, Rich Miner — now a partner at Google Ventures — said some level of fragmentation is inevitable with Android's reach and the number of partners in the ecosystem. But things are getting better, he said, and in any case most consumers don't notice the difference: `This is a bit of an overblown issue, frankly.'"
Don't listen to this man. He is a paid, M$ shill. Our Google masters have stated there is no issues so anyone stating otherwise is clearly lying.
It wasn't an abstract concept when NetFlix was putting their wares out to certain users using certain versions of Android and not others. All the while being left at the mercy of carrier OS updates if you didn't want to go through putting on your own upgrade to Android and potentially breaking something. These problems don't exist in Appleland with the exception of running old hardware. My hardware wasn't even two years old when this happened and the hardware was still available NIB from the carrier!
It's not abstract at all or you don't know what the word abstract means. It wasn't the only reason for me to move on but it left a sour taste in my mouth that I was carrying a "flagship" Android phone and 18 months later it was deemed unworthy of running one of the biggest apps to come out on Android at the time.