Well, what do you know! Steve Jobs used Tweetdeck’s graph yesterday at their earnings report, as proof that Android is so “fragmented” that is must be a nightmare for developers to make apps for Android, but here comes TweetDecks’s own CEO and disproves Steve Jobs’ claim.
Now, everyone who’s been following Android news lately should have known that Steve Jobs claim about 100 versions of Android being on cellphones was a big overstatement. Why? Because if an Android version has a few different icons it doesn’t mean it creates fragmentation.
Fragmentation happens when there are a lot of phones with old versions of Android that don’t support many important features that applications need from the OS. The biggest gap in Android versions has been between Android 1.5/1.6 and Android 2.1/2.2. But luckily, there are already 73% of users who have Android 2.1/2.1, so Android fragmentation is much less of an issue right now, and I believe this issue will become even smaller from now on as everyone moves to version 2.1+. As well given that Google has stated they will be slowing down the roll out of updates during the year.
What is your take on fragmentation within the community? Do you feel things are going to get better or worse as more devices come out and new OS’s are pushed? Let us know.
Source: Android Healines
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Haha wow is Steve Jobs trying to get developers to stop making apps for the iPhone and move to Android? =] ANDROID FTW lol
Steve Jobs is just a hater plain and simple he fears android because he knows that it is the better os and he sees that his icrap is no match for the 20+ highend devices on all major carriers plus all major cell phone company’s. How could he ever compete with that apple phones have pecked and android has just begun to
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I love that graph!! Steve is an idiot if he really had any clue he would know that it in no way shows androids fragmentation. Those are not different android versions at all there different ROM’s most of which are just themed versions of cyanogenmod
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