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Originally Posted by ericsson View Post
It is not a matter of fragmentation, it is a matter of what the fragmentation does. Apple as one device, Nokia has 100? Android also "has" 100 devices. Fragmentation on iOS is not possible.

If you try to defragment Android, you will end up with lots of equal looking devices. Good for Google, but bad for everyone else. Nokia on the other hand, can do whatever they want with Symbian and MeeGo, it will still be Nokia, and look Nokia. MeeGo will be fragmented to pieces, but still share a common ground, the kernel.
actually defragmenting android will continue with 3.0

and apple will have at least 3 different devices (iphone, ipad, itv) with same os.

fragmentation is bad for developers. less fragmentation = less testing required. and app races are all about developers...
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