The fragmentation issue is with user choice, and the amount of learning and experimentation you have to do to make all of those decisions. There's no de facto "

The fragmentation issue is with user choice, and the amount of learning and experimentation you have to do to make all of those decisions. There's no de facto "probably the best for you" Linux flavor, or method of installing applications. Whereas on Android, generally if you don't know what Android to get, you get a Samsung. You want to install an app? No matter which phone you have, you tap the Play Store icon. Plus there's large corporations selling these devices, and they set everything up to work for you out of the box. You're not gonna run into an equivalent of the experience setting up Linux desktop where it's not recognizing your monitor correctly and you have to mess with drivers and running mysterious commands in a terminal to make it work. Samsung made the phone and hardware work, turn it on, and you're good to go.