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Android Reaches 39% Tablet OS Market Share (Standing On Amazon’s Shoulders)
- ryandvm 15y agoThis is the first real sign of troublesome fragmentation in Android. As an Android developer, I've always been amused that people trotted out the fragmentation boogeyman. As a practical matter, if you stick with good app designm it's really not a problem. Like desktop operating systems, it doesn't matter if the OS is running on hardware with differing screen sizes or device inputs. Properly designed apps can handle that. However, the fact that Amazon has been able to make a popular fork of Android is potentially disastrous. The question is will Amazon continue to track baseline Android or are they going to diverge their fork from here? The latter will result in Android developers having to choose whether they want to concentrate resources on Android proper or Amazon's Android. That would be fragmentation worth worrying about.