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I don't think it's an exaggeration. It's not so much a compatibility problem, just as it wasn't for Windows, but instead it's a business problem. Google is incr

by jsz0 15y ago

I don't think it's an exaggeration. It's not so much a compatibility problem, just as it wasn't for Windows, but instead it's a business problem. Google is increasingly unable to get new features to market in a timely fashion. They can side-step this to some degree releasing applications in the Market but long-term it's going to hurt them quite a lot if they can't get features out there.

mrb 15y ago
You say "Google is increasingly unable to get new features to market in a timely fashion" but one post above yours, someone says effectively that "Google releases new APIs/features way too quickly". This is exactly what I am talking about. People who claim fragmentation is a problem cannot even agree on what the problem is, concretely. I believe Google does release new APIs often, but why would that break your application if it was not using this API to start with? Once an API is released (eg. the Bluetooth API in Android 2.0), it stays stable in the subsequent versions of Android.