Comments on: Android Fragmentation does not matter to you

By: Manbo

Manbo — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 02:59:00 +0000

awe muffin…

By: PulSamsara

PulSamsara — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 07:59:00 +0000

I’m about to purchase a new desktop with a newer OS. Fragmentation. So what ?

By: ph00ny

ph00ny — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 02:59:00 +0000

That’s because users like you quack about a non-issue as a consumer

I’m glad people like you’re moving on

By: John doe

John doe — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 23:42:00 +0000

well said.

By: L

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 21:43:00 +0000

Wow. Thats the funniest/stupidest post i seen in a while. thanks for the laugh. had to like that one.

By: thereasoner

thereasoner — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 21:21:00 +0000

You’re right ,it’s not hurting Andriod one bit. It’s can be a pain in the ass for app developers but that hasn’t stopped them from developind/porting. It’s great propaganda for Andriods very scared competition but for those who know better it’s just a hollow argument.The only Andriod users who think it’s an issue were never well suited for Andriod to begin with. You know the ones i’m talking about, the type of consumer who spend alot of money on things they know nothing about. They buy a skined device and wonder why they don’t get fast updates then they go online and bitch about the company they choose, all along displaying their own stupidity. Dumb people should just by an iphone and be done with it, leave the Andriods for the intelligent consumer.

By: L

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 21:05:00 +0000

@someinternetdude:disqus Thats only a year. It would make some sense if Apple had a larger head start (2.5-3 yrs) it would explain why it has twice as many downloads. And your crazy to think that the App store isn’t moving as quickly. Its not just iPhones downloading apps. you might catch up when android gets temple run hahaha.

By: L

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 20:43:00 +0000

I might by the new iPhone when it comes out. Ill just sell my 4s when the time comes. But if i wanted i could keep it and know that ill be running the latest OS 2-3 years later. I was happy with my Android device for a couple years also, I rooted my phone too. Then I got the 4s (vzw) stock loved it (only thing i missed from android is the turn by turn navi but theres an App for that). Jailbroke it and the rest is history, I could careless about rooting and roms anymore. I just love tweaking my iPhone and downloading cracked apps. Again I was happy with my rooted android phone but im even happier with my jailbroken iPhone 4s. I promise you, you would take MY iPhone over your Android phone any day.

By: John doe

John doe — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 20:33:00 +0000

Well iOS did have a year head start. Anyway keep this in mind Android market is getting 1 billion app downloads per month.

By: John doe

John doe — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 20:33:00 +0000

Well iOS did have a year head start. Anyway keep this in mind Android market is getting 1 billion app downloads per month.

By: L

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 20:26:00 +0000

Only a year. Android barely had 10 billion downloads at the end of 2011. he we are in the second month of 2012 and iOS has double that.

By: John doe

John doe — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 19:32:00 +0000

Don’t know what a shackout is but its not happening, in fact Android has surpassed and has been steadily growing. Sorry the numbers of market share don’t jive with your comment.

By: RobertPerez1

RobertPerez1 — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 19:28:00 +0000

That’s cuz the new smartphone customers are newbies who don’t know any better. You find people everywhere, however, who are former Android phone users and are now iPhone users. You rarely see it go the other way.

When the smartphone critical mass of dumb phone joiners is over , just like in PC’s. You are gonna see a big shakeout.

By: Sandy

Sandy — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 14:00:00 +0000

LOL.. Go buy your iphone 5 soon.. ;) or whatever comes out.. I would never go with iphone..I’m happy with android.. And I get to do whatever I want with it. Better to root and have millions of roms where you can choose whatever fits you.. Than only having to do the stupid jailbreak.. ;) and.. I have my android..which is 2 years old.. And super happy with it.. :)

By: John doe

John doe — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 13:50:00 +0000

Considering that it had a year head start the numbers make sense. But again I digress, Fragmentation is a none issue.

By: mikelo90

mikelo90 — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 10:10:00 +0000

MS OneNote…. I tried to download it on my Desire a couple of days ago. Imagine my dissapointment when I saw it required at least Gingerbread

By: L

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 08:00:00 +0000

Some day they’ll be at 25 billion like iOS. And iOS only had year start on Android.

By: L

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 02:20:00 +0000

The first nexus phone came out 6 months after the Galaxy S how was he supposed to know. Your the idiot. STFU!!!

By: John doe

John doe — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:47:00 +0000

For the life of me i cant figure out how this so called fragmentation is hurting Android, at 250 million Android devices, 700,000 activations per day, 11 billion Market downloads I’m not seeing this problem hurting. And its been talked about for like two years now. From now on I wanna see proff like bigfoot, or it didn’t happen.

By: Charlie Fezziwig

Charlie Fezziwig — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:05:00 +0000

re: Android Fragmentation does not matter to you

My carrier stopped updating my phone’s Android OS. Guess that’s there polite way of telling me to buy a new phone I don’t need. Needless to say I won’t be going with this carrier again and am looking at non-android phones for my next purchase.

By: Andre Richards

Andre Richards — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:57:00 +0000

My wife and I both have 3-year-old smart phones. Mine is an iPhone 3G which has received multiple updates over the years. Hers is a Droid Eris which has received no updates and still runs the 2.1 it shipped with. The differences in user experience have grown over the years. Example: I can watch Netflix on my phone. She can’t. For that and many other similar reasons, the Android phone appears to her to be vastly inferior and she now plans to buy an iPhone next time around. My wife isn’t a techie either–very definitely what one might consider a casual or average smart phone user. But she can plainly see the difference in user experience and has grown to regret buying an Android-based phone. Anyone who thinks “average” users don’t notice this is delusional.

By: L

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:53:00 +0000

Like i said too bad. you can be satsified with that but this is why I had to dump my droid. It still worked perfectly fine but after a year it was not longer getting updated. You might be ok with that but I wasn’t. And if you want something that will stand one its own. There’s a company that still supports it 3rd gen phone with the latest software.

By: L

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:53:00 +0000

By: L

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:53:00 +0000

By: L

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:53:00 +0000

By: L

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:46:00 +0000

what are you talking about? 3gs is 3 years old.

By: L

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:46:00 +0000

what are you talking about? 3gs is 3 years old.

By: L

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:46:00 +0000

what are you talking about? 3gs is 3 years old.

By: L

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:46:00 +0000

what are you talking about? 3gs is 3 years old.

By: Aaron Mars

Aaron Mars — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:29:00 +0000

You’re the idiot that didn’t get a Nexus device.
Your fault, not Google, not Samsung.

By: Simon Cohen

Simon Cohen — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:22:00 +0000

I’m stunned by Chris Burns’ view on this topic. “You get what you pay for” ? Seriously?
First of all, Android is free. No cost to the manufacturer and none for anyone else in the Android food chain. The trouble is, most manufacturers feel the need to layer-on to Android with their own custom code which in itself creates more fragmentation. This is where cost comes into the equation – a cost that the manufacturers take on, and which customers must pay – both in dollars and a lack of upgrade options. Let’s be clear on this: Google could probably support upgrades of Android on every device that runs older versions *if* they hadn’t been saddled with a custom layer. But because they are, Google’s hands are tied. They can’t force manufacturers to upgrade their users and they can’t do it themselves because of HTC Sense or Samsung TouchWiz or whatever. Let’s call this what it is – a fork in the Android ecosystem created by manufacturers that has resulted in obsolescence whether intentional or not. It’s this practice that makes people run straight over to the Apple store where at least things are easier to understand…. and you really do get what you pay for.

By: Franklin Stone

Franklin Stone — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:32:00 +0000

@Masands, I have a Galaxy S with ICS and it runs like a dream. The Nexus S is basically a Galaxy S with some design flaws thanks to Google so ICS would run on it like a dream too

By: ph00ny

ph00ny — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:33:00 +0000

you must have some special secret release since you’re on 2.6

By: Samsuck

Samsuck — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 07:56:00 +0000

My battery life has almost doubled after upgrading from 2.2 to 2.6.

By: Cory Gunther

Cory Gunther — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 07:05:00 +0000

@masands ICS runs great on the Nexus S with a single-core. Watch this video although its alpha cm9

http://androidcommunity.com/samsung-nexus-s-android-4-0-cyanogenmod-9-alpha-hands-on-video-20111128/

By: blomman

blomman — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 06:16:00 +0000

Wp7 is dead as KIN. To low specs
I love my Iphone Dual Core.

By: CoolCustomer

CoolCustomer — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 06:02:00 +0000

As a fellow owner of this phone I can safely say…who cares. I have a windows 7 laptop and I’ll get a windows 8 (or whatever they have out at the time) laptop when I upgrade my device. Just because there is new software out there doesn’t mean everything on my system becomes useless. I bought out because it does what I need now and when I upgrade I’ll be sure to get the latest shiny that can stand on its own for at least 3 years.

By: ph00ny

ph00ny — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 05:42:00 +0000

By supporting them you mean dump it from iOS support after two versions later?

By: masands

masands — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 02:45:00 +0000

This is why I think Windows Phones are the best. The people’s no.1 complain about the iPhone is “choices”. Many people including me cannot stand the smallish 3.5″ screen. But luckily with WP7 you have the choice of Android with the reliability of iOS! My first gen WP7 HTC has received like 10 updates in the past year and 1 major update. Even though I do not get the snappy dual core processors and tons of apps, it makes me happy that my 15 month old phone is still supported! It also makes me very happy to know that I will get at least 1 more major update this year whether it be Tango or Apollo. Also with WP7 you can still support the company you like! I was always a HTC fan and I can still purchase their WP7 phones and also stay away from this fragmentation at the same time. Isn’t that great?

By: masands

masands — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 02:38:00 +0000

Buy a Windows Phone?