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Start talking reason and stop the fanboy crap. This is not a fanboy issue of iOS, MS, Android, whatever.

Go look at the poster, and then tell me again that wasn’t posted out of anything other than some “fanboy” nonsense.

The whole “fragmentation” issue has been pushed by Android bashing iOS users for the past 2 years in some insane hope that they can convince people that Android is simply too unstable and scary, and that you’d be better off in the arms of an iPhone.

It hasn’t been a significant issue then, and it still isn’t. Now the talk has ratcheted up to how it isnt “sustainable” and profitable or “Google really wants to get rid of Android”. Just more nonsense.

Go look at the poster, and then tell me again that wasn’t posted out of anything other than some “fanboy” nonsense.

Swordmaker may be an Apple fanboy, but that does not mean that the fragmentation of Android is not an issue. It also does not mean such articles shouldn't be discussed.

This is FR, not DU.

The whole “fragmentation” issue has been pushed by Android bashing iOS users for the past 2 years in some insane hope that they can convince people that Android is simply too unstable and scary, and that you’d be better off in the arms of an iPhone.

It hasn’t been a significant issue then, and it still isn’t. Now the talk has ratcheted up to how it isnt “sustainable” and profitable or “Google really wants to get rid of Android”. Just more nonsense.

As more and more people come to the end of their 2 and 3 year contracts with Android phones, it actually will be a serious issue, because many of those who bought a phone only to find out that an OS or app released six months or a year later won't run are not going to be happy. Sure, most people aren't going to care, and Google and the phone makers are counting on that, but people who actually like to spend money on apps are going to care. And Android developers who rely on those people, and who have watched their development costs rise are going to care.

The same thing happened with Windows Mobile and its various versions/predecessors - Microsoft was allowing all kinds of companies to throw all kinds of versions of mobile Windows on all kinds of phones - touchscreens, touchscreens with keyboards, tiny screens with qwerty keyboards, tiny screens with T9 keyboards, different types of CPUs.

As somebody who dealt with that and who had financial interests in the mobile Windows market at one point during the worst of it, it was very frustrating, and it's bizarre that Google is allowing the same thing to happen again.

What brought Microsoft success on the desktop - supporting numerous hardware configurations, eventually brought them problems in the mobile market and opened the door for Apple.