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Tech journalism at its worst, once more: 1) Of course the data is skewed! Please don't use a headline only to correctly question its content in the last senten
by apl 16y ago
Tech journalism at its worst, once more:
1) Of course the data is skewed! Please don't use a headline only to correctly question its content in the last sentence.
2) Fragmentation hits at two, largely orthogonal levels - there are different versions of the base OS (1.6, 2.1, 2.2) as well as different top-level UIs/distributions (HTC Sense, Samsung stuff, stock Android). The fragmentation problem would persist even if 100% of all accesses came from 2.2 devices. This is equivalent to claiming that Linux is a unified platform because 77% of all google.com visitors use the same kernel.
3) Don't forget the hardware problem. iOS and webOS aren't perfect in that respect, but comparatively harmless.
- fragmede 16y agoThe hardware-isn't-the-same fragmentation problem still exists in an all 2.2 ecosystem. The is-this-API-call-supported problem does not. Problem 2 is a bigger problem, but solving it does not fix problem 1.
- othermaciej 16y agoThis article doesn't even refute the idea of OS level fragmentation. They arbitrarily bundled two versions. If you look at the original data, the most share held by any single version of Android is 40.8%: <http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-versions.html> http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-ve...; And it's not even the newest version! The less spin-laden headline would be: "What fragmentation? 36% of devices run Android 2.2."