OS fragmentation, though, is an utter disaster. Ice Cream Sandwich is by all accounts very nice; but what good does that do app developers, when according to Google’s own stats, 30% of all Android devices are still running an OS that is 20 months old? I sure would have liked to stop caring about Android 2.2 bugs fixed in 2.3. It would have been awfully nice to be able to use the animation libraries from Android 3.0, described in this almost-a-year-old blog post, to say nothing of Ice Cream Sandwich’s features; but at this rate, Android developers aiming for a mass audience will have to wait another year, if not longer, before they can actually build apps that take advantage of all the shiny new features.
via techcrunch.com
This really sheds some light on the differences in the platform. It remains to be seen whether this will really hold back the Android market.....there is so much momentum that app developers cannot afford to ignore the platform regardless of how difficult it is for them to provide backwards compatibility for all the versions of the OS.
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