Rui Carmo
I’m amazed it took this long for mainstream media to figure out that Android is probably going to be more fragmented (in terms of capabilities, features, UI, and overall end-user perception) than, say, Linux. The article does a reasonably good job of covering the reasons and drivers for it being so, but they’re underestimating the confusion currently permeating lifecycle management for manufacturers actually trying to integrate the platform into a device portfolio, for with development times for handsets being in the 9-18 month range, it becomes nearly impossible to know what kind of OS they’ll actually be shipping without trying to assume “proprietary” control of a given Android snapshot - and causing even more splintering.