Google Exec Defends Android Platform's Openness
"Android fragmentation has been in the news again lately, prompting Andy Rubin, Google's vice president of engineering, to pen a Wednesday blog post in which he defended Android and insisted that the company remains committed to developing an open platform."
"Reports to the contrary are "misinformation," Rubin wrote."
""We don't believe in a 'one size fits all' solution," he continued. "Miraculously, we are seeing the platform take on new use cases, features and form factors as it's being introduced in new categories and regions while still remaining consistent and compatible for third party applications.""
"Rubin's comments come after a report from Robert W. Baird & Co. this week found that 55 percent of Android developers find OS fragmentation to be a meaningful or huge problem. But Android isn't exactly suffering. This week also saw the release of reports that said Android-based smartphones have 33 percent of the U.S. market, and could command nearly half of worldwide smartphone OS market share by the end of 2012."
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