“Google may be planning to keep Android 2 and 3 segregated in a long-term split of the platform, according to a ViewSonic source on Monday,” Electronista reports.
MacDailyNews Take: Fragmandroid.
Electronista continues, “The 2.4 update, once thought to be called Ice Cream, is now said to be a continuation of Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) that would simply add backwards compatibility for dual-core apps on single-core phones. Ice Cream, Pocket-lint heard, should be Android 3.1 and would keep the two apart in features and the interface.”
“A 2.4 launch would arrive sometime in April,” Electronista reports. “If true, the schism could create problems for Google’s attempts to promote Android as a unified platform for both phones and tablets.”
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MacDailyNews Take: A dessert by any other name is still patent infringement.
The Droidopottomus rolls on.
and 3.14159265 is due to square the circle
Google is even more clueless than MS ? Or do they LIKE fragmentation ?
This is a smart move, tablets and phones are not the same. They should be different. This is a better strategy. And this is not the definition of fragmentation.
Android should counted as multiple incompatible platforms, instead of just one.
Friggin thieves
My parents taught me not to accept free sweets from strangers.
Good try, Joe.
Joe writes, “This is a smart move, tablets and phones are not the same. They should be different.”
Yet somehow iOS manages to elegantly handle both (not to mention earlier versions of the product series).
@Joe
Why is it not fragmentation? Because this extra split that compounds the number of versions being used simultaneously on similar touch devices is “intentional”? Oh, it’s a feature? I get it, nice! LOL
Tablet operating systems SHOULD differ from their smartphones iterations. This isn’t fragmentation, this is smart. The different form-factors call for it.
right……., because who would ever need a single, clean, operational OS the scales between phone, tablet and computer?
Why if all those things were to actually work together could you imagine the disruptive chaos?
right……., because who would ever need a single, clean, operational OS the scales between phone, tablet and computer?
Why if all those things were to actually work together could you imagine the disruptive chaos?
Consumers don’t want or need an OS and interface that looks and works the same between devices, thats just plain stupid.
+1 @ ken1w
Wayyyyyy too many incompatible things are being lumped together under the “Android” banner lately. It’s time for analysts do what they’re paid for (i.e., some actual analysis), and start separating those numbers out in ways which are actually meaningful. Some good starting points:
Tapas is not Android.
OMS is not Android.
Google’s tablet OS is not Android.
Further suggestions welcome.
@ @Joe
Eh don’t know what you are smoking but you dont need all the OS to be the same to have them work together. And why you would not want to add features specifically to take advantage of the extra screen real estate you get with a tablet format is beyond me.
So good luck with that line of thought. With that way of thinking we might as well just replace all OS with iOS and not have Mac OSX. Oh wait, then where would we be? Think before you type smart guy…
MDN, how is that any different than the iPad running a different version of iOS than the iPhone for the former’s first 9 months on the market?
@TommyBoy
Exactly … Thank you. This is not the definition of fragmentation as was used before.
@ Tommy Boy
The difference appears to be that, while Apple planned on a unified iOS from the outset, Google evidently never had any strategy on how to unify Tablet Android and Phone Android. They admitted this last week, saying “We really don’t know. That’s a conversation we are just beginning to have right now internally with the team.”
So, yeah, not really comparable.
You MUST be a bass ackwards windows guy, cause you got it all wrong…….
IOS is Mac OS X its scalable in case you weren’t aware. Yep, it fits sizes from iPod nanos up to 10″ tablets and 27″ monitors.
No waste of real estate and screen size. Have you been to the app store lately? lots of programs have a phone/pod version, and a pad version that takes advantage of the extra space. Not only that, it takes advantage of the extra space with little effort on the part of the developer. Unlike having to write one size for phones in fragdroid 2, and yet another for tablets in fragdroid 3, and still another for netbooks and laptops in Chrome/ fragdroid 4
I propose we refer to Tablet Android as “Tabdroid”, and Phone Android as “Phonedroid”.
They can join Tapasdroid, OMSdroid, Motodroid, HTCdroid, and all the many, many other slightly-to-completely-incompatible droids we’re not looking for.
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Apart from multi-touch…what other patent infringements does Android violate from Apple?
Ice Cream, – Gingerbread? More like Broccoli, or Turnips.
@ @Joe
I’m ass backwards? Are you kidding? iOS is a version of OSX, it is not the exact same os, parts have been removed and others added to take advantage of the platform, idiot. So keep chanting that mantra.
And you are such a dumb ass that you contradict yourself within your own argument. First you say there are apps written specifically for iPad, then you say there is no need to write separate apps? Wait so there are separate apps for iPad and other iOS devices but they are all the same? Are there not apps only available to iPad? Yes there are.
Ok so now that we have established that you have no idea what fragmentation refers to, lets let others provide an intelligent comment and leave your gibberish out.
There are lots of example where tablet sized screen can be taken advantage of in ways you probably should not on a phone, i.e. notifications.
so STFU.
I am waiting to see Apples response. I’m confident they have not spent the last year on there hands, but have been designing like crazy.
Why all these Childish names? Google employes needs to grow up. Besides why do they continue to develop this crap os?
2.4 in April?
I thought HornyToad or CornHoled or whatever silly moniker they slapped onto 3.0 was the next big release.