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By Philip Elmer-DeWitt
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Android devices come in all shapes and sizes and may run any one of more than a half-dozen active versions of Google’s GOOG -0.14% operating system.
This diversity is both a blessing and a curse, as OpenSignal reports in its 2014 Android fragmentation survey.
On one hand, fragmentation gives app developers a wide audience to build for — far wider than Apple’s iOS. On the other, trying to develop an app that will run on the entire range of Android devices is a nightmare.
How fragmented has Android become? From OpenSignal’s findings:
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