Comments on: Not Sure I Buy the Android Fragmentation Argument

By: C. Enrique Ortiz

C. Enrique Ortiz — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:31:36 +0000

Variation of Android is already happing in China w/ the OPhones… But to tell you the truth I am not sure yet how bad/different/”fragmented” it really is. But it is important that Google remains as the core group that determines roadmap and consistency about how things are expose and how the exposed things behave.

ceo

By: Timm

Timm — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:41:15 +0000

Agree with your argument that carrier variants will go away (Sprint was notorious in creating a slight variation in J2ME). However, I cannot see handset manufacturers following a Wintel model. They will want to differentiate their hardware with things like proximity sensors, compass, gyro and some of these will affect UX and UI.

So how will Google keep up with these variants?

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Sun, 07 Jun 2009 03:45:54 +0000

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By: James Pearce

James Pearce — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:02:01 +0000

I’m not sure you have to be a forkable open-source platform in order to exhibit fragmentation.

(Or so suggests 10 years of closed source mobile chaos.)