"A tempest in a teapot" is an argument that has no bearing on how events will actually play out. Fragmentation is just a conversation for geeks. My sister is

"A tempest in a teapot" is an argument that has no bearing on how events will actually play out. Fragmentation is just a conversation for geeks. My sister is going to buy an Android phone because it's cheap and pretty good. It doesn't matter to her that the market is fragmented -- hell, the fragmentation (and corresponding competition) is probably part of what made it cheap enough for her to consider it. Mobile developers are going to have to live with this fact, because there's a lot of eyes on the line. So far, fragmentation has not been a problem so hard to solve that it has driven developers away. As long as that's the case, the "problem" will feed on itself.