"Fragmentation" matters to the entire Android community: users, developers, OEMs, brands and networks. Fragmentation is a primary reason why Google is changing the way it issues operating system updates.
Fragmentation isn't always a "problem." In many ways, it offers users and developers a chance to experience great choice and variety.
The proliferation of devices with their associated screen sizes, internal hardware and custom ROMs creates some difficulties, though, as when a particular app doesn't work at all, or works poorly, on particular devices and operating system versions.
OpenSignalMaps, for example, has identified 681,900 of discrete Android devices, and looked at models, brands, API levels (the version of Android) and screen sizes. And yes, you could say there is a great deal of fragmentation.
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Android Fragmentation: 682,000 Different Devices
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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