One of the controversial comments Steve Jobs made (does the man really make too many other kinds of comments?) during Apple’s last financials call about Android excoriated the platform and its ...

Android is growing at a phenomenal rate thanks in part to the many hardware options available to phone shoppers. Now Android is at an inflection point, with both phones and tablets on the market. With ...

Google's Android mobile phone stack will end up fragmented into multiple versions, Symbian's research chief has claimed. "The reason the code will change is that people will have different ...

An Android engineering team member earlier this week lashed out at critics who spread fears of fragmentation in the Android mobile phone market In a blog post, Dan Morrill, a member of the engineering ...

In the case of Google's Android and Amazon's Android, where apps developed for either platform are generally cross-compatible, Google probably isn't all that concerned. Google is probably trying to ...

Google’s Android operating system has long been portrayed as the “open” alternative to Apple iOS and most other mobile operating systems. While Google typically works on new versions of Android behind ...

Rapid growth in the Google-backed Android mobile phone OS puts the platform at risk of fragmentation, an analyst study said this week. Android shipped more than 6 million handsets last year and is ...

The success of Samsung’s S4 has finally skewed the Android fragmentation statistics. I suggested on 7 July that Google must save Android from oblivion by getting tough on the extensive modifications ...

Every month or so, we hear someone bleat about how fragmented the Android market has become, how Google has ceded control of Android to the device manufacturers, and how writing and testing Android ...

Google will directly target the issue of Android fragmentation with the release of its upcoming - and unabashedly branded - KitKat operating system. That's according to former Wall Street Journal ...

Guess what, 3,990 or so of these devices fit the bill. If you are designing your device for a specific device, then you are doing it wrong. Ask any Windows developer how many PC hardware ...

The latest non-news posted on the front page about honeycomb release date and the WP7 thread started some good discussions on Android fragmentation. I came across this blog post by computerworld which ...