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It wouldn't have been adopted if they had taken a hard line on that issue.
by MatthewPhillips 14y ago
It wouldn't have been adopted if they had taken a hard line on that issue.
- DigitalJack 14y agoThat's like saying people buy Dells for all the crapware they come with.
- burntsushi 14y agoNo it isn't. The GP isn't saying people buy the phones for the crapware, the GP is saying that the carriers wouldn't have adopted it if they couldn't put their bloat on it.
- cooldeal 14y agoSo you mean Google picked popularity over consistency and sold out to the OEMs and carriers for the sake of marketshare? Android is the pretty much the only OS where this is such a big problem, unlike Windows, OS X, Windows Mobile, Blackberry, Windows Phone, iOS and probably even Linux.
- MatthewPhillips 14y agoI don't know where you get your information from, but Blackberry has broken compatibility in the last 3 OS releases, and Windows Phone 8 doesn't even run the same kernel as the previous version (breaks compatibility). I'm not sure if you ever touched Java ME back in the day... but yeah. You're just wrong on this one.
- cooldeal 14y ago>Windows Phone 8 doesn't even run the same kernel as the previous version (breaks compatibility) Windows Phone 7 apps run fine on WP8. Anyway breaking compatibility is a tad different from fragmentation. If your app runs on a WP7 phone, you can be reasonably certain it runs on all other WP7 phones. With Android, you can easily run into device specific bugs even though the version is the same and thus you're forced to test on the real hardware devices. http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/11/this-is-what-developing-for-android-looks-like/ http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/11/this-is-what-developing-for...
- electic 14y agoAgreed. I bet most of the people ripping other OSes don't even develop for Android. It's a nightmare.
- dpcx 14y agoSo iOS was adopted why...?
- freehunter 14y agoBecause Apple had a heck of a lot more clout than Google did at the time.
- ryanhuff 14y agoWhile Apple was in a very strong position, the carriers had a strong interest in another player to counter Apple's market power. In the case of fragmentation, I think Google was just more willing to negotiate away things like this in the interest of getting a strong presence on the devices.
- resu_nimda 14y agoBecause the iPhone was an obvious money printing machine, so the carriers were willing to accept the inability to put their garbage on it.
- thedragon4453 14y agoNo, not really actually. They went to several carriers and Cingular was the only one that would deal with what apple wanted, and that was reluctant. Google could have pushed harder, but they miscalculated.