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As an open source project, Android couldn't have asked for more success. However, the primary backer - Google - is in a very unenviable position given the kind of returns it is getting for the efforts put in.
Google is really following in Microsoft's footsteps with their very own version of IE6\WinXP in the form of Android 2.X. Honeycomb was kind of like Vista (lots of hype, with little market impact) while ICS shows signs of being like Win7.
Also, the fact that Amazon has based the Kindle Fire on Android 2.3 is going to guarantee even more headaches for developers (unless Amazon beats other OEMs to the ICS upgrade)
Highlights the perils of android being an open platform with very little control over the hardware & end user experience. And it's not just the users getting affected in this case.
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Platform fragmentation: It’s shorthand for saying that multiple devices — all boasting different internal components and screen sizes — are loaded with a wide variety of OS versions. In the world of Android phones, all this variance from device to device can cause problems for engineers who must perfectly match hardware builds to software builds. In the end, consumers are sometimes faced with hardware that doesn’t seem to work.
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That means pushing out lots of updates to phones that may not be ready.
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