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Nov
4
2011

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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android Google issues fragmentation repair

  • 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.
  • That means pushing out lots of updates to phones that may not be ready.
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Makes for pretty sad reading for an OS that is supposed to be at version 4.0. Problems aplenty for both users & app developers.

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android apps market issues bugs Google

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