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Re:How Android fragmentation actually affects users by garyrichardson on Wednesday August 24, 2011 @12:15PM (#2921264)
I think the difference is that there is a successful one size fits all platform that it's competing with, which wasn't the case for PC's through the 90's. I don't think iPhone is better than Android -- they are just two ways of doing the mobile thing. Android and iPhone are still 10000x better than BB and Nokia.

I'm an iPhone guy -- I prefer it over Android for many of the reasons in the article. The bottom line is I don't need to think to get apps and functionality out of my iPhone. When people ask me what they should get, I usually reply with "I like iPhone because of X, Y and Z, but if you choose Android you're still going to have an awesome phone."

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Re:How Android fragmentation actually affects users by wccrawford on Wednesday August 24, 2011 @12:55PM (#2921469)
Prior to IBM Clones, pretty much every system was the same across the board. Just like Android's situation.

But even now, iP(hone/ad) isn't the same across the board. There are several generations with different hardware, plus a tablet or 2 to deal with. (And if we're lucky, the iPad 3 will have retina display.)

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Re:How Android fragmentation actually affects users by garyrichardson on Wednesday August 24, 2011 @06:09PM (#2922671)
You're splitting hairs. That's 5 years of iPhone development. Android is super fragmented in 2.
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