Android Fragmentation: A Dataviz on Platform Strategy
An interesting way of manifesting Android's Wild Wild West.
In The Age of the Platform, I detail the very different ways that Apple and Google have approached building their mobile planks. In short, iOS is closed while Android is openβand by open, I mean chaotic.
The above visual comes from OpenSignal. (Click on the image to see more interesting numbers on mobile OS usage. (Click here for the 2015 report.)
Knowing that Android is fragmented and seeing it displayed are two very different things. Brass tacks: it's simply impossible to standardize Android at this point. That genie is out of the bottle, at least for the foreseeable future. Of course, this begs the inevitable question: Is it better to build a closed or open platform?
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