“A few years ago I read an article about Android OS fragmentation among smartphones,” Wil Gomez reports for Mac360. “What has happened in the more than three years since? More fragmentation.”
“In fact, if one tried to describe the differences between Apple’s iPhone and iOS vs. Google’s Android and its many versions and manufacturers, it would be this,” Gomez reports. “It’s unification vs. fragmentation. That synopsis helps to explain why Android OS has failed most of the smartphone makers and why they – and Google – can’t make any money with it.”
“A growing number of more sophisticated smartphone and tablet users– and the corporate IT segment of business– view that fragmentation as a problem to be avoided at all costs,” Gomez reports. “The first and possibly the most important reason is security. Apple updates each version of iOS frequently throughout a year… Most Android smartphone users never upgrade to a newer version (often because they cannot); instead, they buy a new smartphone, as many security upgrades are never made available to the user base. That’s criminal. Is it any wonder that sophisticated buyers and businesses flock to iOS, which owns a commanding share of the enterprise smartphone and tablet usage?”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: It certainly is criminal. Android is the criminal OS in more ways that one: patent infringement, trade dress-infringement, lack of security, lack of privacy, not to mention lack of taste.
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]