“Developers, Developers, Developers!”
Yeah, Steve Ballmer was right. His firm’s Windows platform continues to do well in part because it tries to smooth things out for developers. On the other hand, Android developers have a problem working on that platform because despite the releases of new OS versions, huge fractions of the userbase are stuck on Android 2.x. That’s fragmentation.
BGR is highlighting end-user fragmentation, which is not a problem.
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