From everything I've seen, that's still an exceptionally large cupboard. High-performance uses (games) have big cabinets because, yeah, that's where fragmentat

From everything I've seen, that's still an exceptionally large cupboard. High-performance uses (games) have big cabinets because, yeah, that's where fragmentation can be extremely damaging. The fragmentation there is real, and can be very painful, and I totally agree that it sucks. But in "run of the mill web companies"? Where I work, we have ~6, but 99%+ of the time we just use our Nexus 4s because 99.9%+ of the time it "just works" everywhere, especially if you stick to an older API / support library and know the quirks. We support 2.2+, have a few 3.0+ and 4.2+ features, and it has been terrifically easy to handle our range - much easier than iOS. The other devices are to see how using the app feels on different sizes / performance classes. Getting that feel is important, but it just requires a couple "token" devices.