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what's up everyone jon rettinger from technobuffalo here i got my bad lighting in my opinion ated hoodie on it's time for a rant let's go ahead and get started I'm generally a pretty light-hearted happy guy but I can be a bit of a curmudgeon I have curmudgeon any symptoms and syndromes and opinions and I test a lot of mobile phones and often times that curmudgeon meanness can come out you might remember a few months ago my Apple iOS ramp I talked about iOS becoming stale how the notification systems were incredibly annoying and the lockscreen borderline useless well with google i/o upon us it's time to focus in on android and talk about what they're doing well what they're not doing well what I think they can do to improve let me know whether or not you agree or disagree first android and iOS are always going to be entwined it's hard as a consumer electronics journalist or the consumer in general to not compare the two I love that Android exists just like I love that iOS exists I think a company has only driven to succeed and innovate as far as your competition will take them when you don't have competition the mobile marketplace you stagnate like we had with the original windows mobile not talking windows phone 7 i'm talking to old school windows mobile with a stylus and start menu a little scroll bars you have scroll through and the old palm operating system which was fresh when it first came out but the decade later was still the same so I think that Apple and I think that Google push each other to be better and whether or not you're an Android fannin or an apple fan doesn't matter competition is great for the consumer whenever companies compete the consumers definitely win so as long as Apple exists Google's going to continue to innovate with their mobile platform and as long as the reverse is true i would say what it was going to get confused with what i just said that would be true as well but android is not infallible just like apples not infallible and there are a lot of things that Android could do to improve one of the biggest complaints and problems I have with Android isn't necessarily google's fault perhaps a lot of the carrier's its fragmentation I'm looking over there you guys can't see but I have a few phones all of which are running very different versions of Android some are running a tablet bran system sun or running Gingerbread some Froyo some are running older versions of Claire and all kinds of desert themed deliciousness but there is that fragmentation occurring in android now that may be because Google's continuing to innovate so quickly they're coming out through operating system about every six months or so I've got one of the newer devices here which is just released but surprisingly isn't running the newest version of google's phone OS gingerbread this is running froyo although the screen is pretty awesome and large on it kind of just like to look at okay but that aside it's getting very tough for developers to katina support new birth to the operating system and also support older versions of the operating system certainly new API as you're paying off for new screen resolutions are coming out and sizes and all kinds of business I believe was rovio the makers of Angry Birds I thought it was getting more and more difficult to support Android certainly the newer versions of google's operating systems are sexually going to prevail and be more prevalent and other fancy p words but people are still going to have those older versions of Android I got my mom for example perfect example an android phone she's not the most technologically advanced person in the world she likes to learn she's trying but she's not gonna know how to update her phone even now granted she's got a version that's not even gonna be updated to froyo the phone she's got but she has an older version of Android she likes to try and download apps but she's never going to upgrade her phone speech doesn't know how and there are a lot of folks out there that are like that they get a phone they figure the phone when they pick it up day one is the same phone that they're going to have same ah princess but they're going to have two years later when the contract is up now a lot of people out there have more knowledge about their phones they're more educated consumers they know when over-the-air updates come out they know how to root they know how to jailbreak you know how to customize you know it had tweaked packages which is kind of funny to say and all the rest of that but a lot of people don't and as long as there are the carriers rather offering older version in phones and they aren't pushing these updates and getting them right in front of you you can have a hard time supporting multiple operating systems and legacy then this video is a bit long winded I probably could have just said fragmentation is a big problem with Android and put my hands together and it is a big problem of Android that's all I'm going to say about that fragmentation is annoying I don't like it in cake I don't like my cake comes in fragments I don't like when my outbreaks ism to come to fragments and it's very tough support and that's sort of the windows versus Pete's pc thank to or windows vs mac thing rather now you have a platform like google which is not vertically integrated google mix the outbreaks that some companies can build on top of it customize it tweak it they make the hardware and google says we just made the software or something like Apple they control the hardware all the way through when you get a very limited product choice so you've got just an iphone whether that's for 3gs doesn't really matter whereas on google you can pick up 4.5 inch screen now which is kind of awesome you can pick a 4.3 inch screen you can get a 3.7 inch screen in 3.5 inch screen at four inch screen you put I different choices you can get dual core processor single core processors made from a mere two different manufacturers you've got a little bit of choice in there but with that choice comes variants and the balance becomes harder and harder to support so a bit rambly do you agree disagree if you think fragmentation is overrated inflated and should I shut my pays hole if you guys are still watching just curious what you guys have to say i'm jon rettinger technobuffalo I'll see in the next video you