Friday, November 11, 2011

Summary of Android’s Fragmentation Mess–and How to Fix It By Harry McCracken

Basically McCracken is saying that the Android OS would be better able to compete with other OS, especially the iOS, all it takes is better business strategy. The Android OS is not standard enough for the general public. There are fractured versions of the OS depending on the brand of phone, the phones capabilities, and the service provider. This makes it nearly impossible to update software, and impossible for apps to be universal. The Author believes that Google should control their product more, so that phones that use their OS will be more standard, so that updates can be more frequent, and so that the OS itself and all the apps on their marketplace can all work with all phones that run it. McCracken compares the Android OS and its success to the iOS and its success time and time again, to help make his point relevant. Obviously the consumer enjoys the certainty that apple will not simply out mode older models and stop coming out with updates for them, that’s why so many are sold. It’s a well written blog that is very persuasive in its argument; however the argument is pointless because the audience is not Google executives.

Original Blog: http://techland.time.com/2011/11/10/the-android-fragmentation-mess-and-how-to-fix-it/2/

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