Mobile Nations 10: The F-word
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Phil Nickinson, Rene Ritchie, and special guest Michael DeGusta talk about fragmentation, legacy, forks, and flexibility and how they challenge developers, designers, but most importantly -- consumers. This is a Mobile Nations Special Edition!
Agenda
- Android Orphans: Visualizing a Sad History of Support
- Editorial: Fun with ‘fragmentation’ charts (or, why you shouldn’t be distracted by shiny objects)
- Android 'fragmentation' -- why it really matters to you and me
- Forked up
- Everything is a grid
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Credits
Thanks to the Mobile Nations network of store for sponsoring this podcast, and to our fantastic live chat members for keeping us honest and making us smart!
Editor-in-Chief of iMore, Executive Producer at Mobile Nations, co-host of Iterate and ZEN and TECH, cook, grappler, photon wrangler.
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Simple solution......XDA:) I never run stock anyway. An I have tried!
Good show guys. Love the banter and love that Phil was sticking it to him. I don't think Michael is an Android hater at all, but he is very biased towards iOS, which is fine, he just needs to admit it. Like Phil said, pick you're OS and all it's issues.
I'm a recent convert to the iPhone after many Droids. The main reason for my conversion was that after going through Droid DX's and a DX2 I could not get one to run stable (daily reboots, alarm not going off, etc...). The reason for the instability was: BUGGY AND VERY VERY LATE ANDROID UPDATES. It wasn't until 11 months after Gingerbread was released that Google/Motorola/Verizon managed to release a stable Gingerbread for my DX2. By that time I already bought my iPhone 4S
Yes, timely updates do make a difference. And Android has never been timely.
I feel bad for Phil. There is clearly a issue in the android world and he was trying to defend those issue, when he has no control over how screwed up the manufactures and carriers are.
Phil got his ass kicked by Michael. Like really bad, but we still respect ya, Phil.
Phil had to do some serious tap dancing on that podcast.
Trying so hard to ignore the cold hard truth: Google doesn't care about fragmentation. All Google cares about is ad revenue. And that doesn't require the latest version of Android. Just ask Amazon, the new King of Amazon Forkers.