Comments on: Nokia’s Stephen Elop is Clueless and Living in 2009, Still Talking Android Fragmentation

By: James Kirk

James Kirk — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 08:28:00 +0000

Sorry I’m not an iSheep, but their is a lot in a phone apple doesn’t offer and android does. Thanks for posting your site so i can permanently block using my google android phone.
This is still the beginning of the smart phone generation as time goes on their will be a science to measure and predict these qualities of functionality. But corporate greed would rather sell phones and boost profits to then pay for the research to make better phones cause there is no money in updating phones. And Iphones control their sheep by making them pay for everything through their appstore that android users can get for free. Which was the main reason iphones wouldn’t get flash cause then their store would lose money if they could get it off the net and other sources for free.

By: Kenny Bats

Kenny Bats — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:28:00 +0000

Clueloss… Just becuase they use Android doesn’t mean they have a clue.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:54:00 +0000

What you’re saying is true, unfortunately people like droidzilla that blindly regurgitate what android blogs feed them don’t seem to be interested in looking at the bigger picture. Guess what? No OS is perfect, not even android. To deny there are any issues because “oMG look at the big android numbers!”, is foolish and narrow minded.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:59:00 +0000

WP7 is quite good..I used it daily for several months and I plan to get another one as soon as Verizon decides to jump on board outside of the pathetic Trophy.

By: Splicer78

Splicer78 — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:51:00 +0000

Nokia=Kodak a company that WAS

By: Christopher

Christopher — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:50:00 +0000

I don’t need to repeat what has already been said but the fact is Android is becomming more fragmented by the day and quickly becomming a commodity OS. And I own A GNEX.

By: Human Cyborg

Human Cyborg — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:35:00 +0000

Again, not the point. The point is whether or not fragmentation exists, and above that, whether it causes issues (specifically for developers). Sure you can just keep developing for the lowest common denominator (I am guessing 2.2.x).

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:36:00 +0000

The people that will worry about whether it will see an update are the same people that are aware enough to do the research before they buy the phone, the ones that don’t worry don’t know and don’t care. I purposely buy my phones halfway through their lifecycle to save significant dollars, I don’t expect them to get upgraded, I buy them for what features they offer at the time.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:23:00 +0000

But by your definition everything has fragmentation. So then the question becomes, “Is fragmentation a problem?”. It’s obviously not in iOS and definitely a little more so in Android. But that doens’t mean its a problem like the CEO states.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:19:00 +0000

But the problem with Windows is they came out with the Touch Pro 2 before the Droid, and they still are “guns blazing” 2 years later.

So comparatively Android was a big diesel with some turbo lag while Windows can barely keep their pretty gold engine idling.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:19:00 +0000

We’ll see…the only thing I have to say is that my wife currently has a Windows Tablet (Dell Duo) and trust me, it ain’t crushin nothin…hopefully they do better in the future because I still like my Windows laptop and it would be nice to have a snappy, thin, portable version.

By: Maria Fe Camaya O'Neill

Maria Fe Camaya O'Neill — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:15:00 +0000

It’s not that you “can’t” develope for ICS, the question is why would you want to develope for that OS only when it just been released? Obviously you develope for the older version of Andriod and then do what all the developers are doing with existing apps, upgrade them later to work with ICS. It may not be convenient but that has never stopped people from developing for Andriod.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:15:00 +0000

Well said!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:06:00 +0000

Seriously? Come on people, seriously? People want to sit here and cry about “fragmentation”?! FRAGMENTATION IS A GOOD THING! IT’S CALLED FREAKING DIVERSITY PEOPLE! THAT’S WHAT FREAKING ANDROID IS! (And for those of you that can’t put 2 and 2 together…OPENNESS = DIVERSITY! THAT’S ANDROID!) If you want to talk about Iphone this and Iphone that, GO TO ANOTHER WEBSITE! THIS IS DROID-LIFE FOR A REASON! You can argue that android has the market only because they have free phones but who gives a rip?! They are getting their product out there! You can say thousands of people line up for the Iphone when it comes out, OF COURSE! THEY ONLY HAVE 1! ONLY 1! Not very diverse if you ask me… You can say that you hate that newer phones have better apps and your phone can’t run them, GET A NEW PHONE! The original Iphone cannot run the same apps as the 4S can it? So there! This is a “GROW UP AND QUIT YOUR WHINING!” post.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:03:00 +0000

Agreed. Also, Windows will crush competitors in the tablet market.