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There actually is significant fragmentation in the Android user base, and it's harder to deliver significant apps with equality of performance and features for
by MaysonL 14y ago
There actually is significant fragmentation in the Android user base, and it's harder to deliver significant apps with equality of performance and features for Android than iOS. See, for example, the BBC's experience: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2012/12/android_update.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2012/12/android_updat...
- mattquiros 14y agoYes, but the reality of the market is that not everybody is getting an iPhone, and not all Android users get high-end Android devices. It is still THE market, nonetheless. I don't think any blame should go to either iOS or Android because it's the people who patronized these products. However, it would be just as absurd to blame the market you're trying to target. If you want to reach as many people as possible, you're going to end up grouping them into categories anyway.
- slurry 14y agoNote that BBC is talking about the widely-varying hardware of Android devices, not the OS itself. Also note that developing for widely-varying hardware + Android is vastly preferable to developing for widely-varying hardware + widely-varying proprietary OSes.