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Android is a like a whole new ball game when it comes to fragmentation. You can't rely on the same kind of touch screens, or a keyboard being present, or a tra
by dpcan 16y ago
Android is a like a whole new ball game when it comes to fragmentation.
You can't rely on the same kind of touch screens, or a keyboard being present, or a trackball, or the speed being same, or an SD card existing, and the screen sizes all seem to be so different, cutting off part of your game's graphics or touch-areas.
On a PC, I can count on there being a 2 button mouse, keyboard, and a 1024x768 resolution in a pinch. There seems to be no fall-back on Android.
Then to top it off, it results in angry user feedback.
And what frustrates ME the most ... comments in the Android Market don't even tell us what phone model the poster is using. For goodness sake, the number of problems this would solve is HUGE.
OK ok, I'm beginning to rant. All I'm saying is Android is in a fragmentation class of its own :)
- DanHulton 16y agoOkay, it's good to see some backup on this - I got downmodded to hell the other day for even suggesting that Android was fragmented: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1917559 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1917559 To be fair, my example sucked and I totally did misunderstand the Netflix issue. But I was right on the basic fragmentation problem, dagnabbit! =)