The desire to improve the Google Android has led to one of the key shortcomings of this platform. The most popular mobile operating system is present in hundreds of millions of devices, which at the same time operate on a variety of different operating system versions that differ from each other not just a serial number, and opportunities functionality and compatibility with applications. With this link the extremely low rate of adaptation latest platform Android 5.0 Lollipop.
Lollipop debuted in November of last year, but at the moment it is installed only 1.4% of smartphones running Android. At the same time, based on the latest version of iOS 8 operate 77% of the devices produced by Apple. On this basis, we can conclude that Google does not seek to promote the latest version of its operating system and burdens that electronics manufacturers.
The problem of fragmentation of Android is that a few years of the mobile platform has experienced several major versions of outputs, leading to the presence of a large proportion of devices that do not support the latest updates. Fragmentation is forcing application developers to care about testing and optimizing their code earlier and outdated versions of Android, solve compatibility issues. Suffer from this and users, "Google Phone" are at high risk and most likely to be infected by malware. According to statistics cited by resource ITWire, Android fragmentation reaches 98.4%.
In the "apple" of the ecosystem situation is much better. Since Apple sells at the same time only three generations of the iPhone and the company controls both hardware and software, the owners of "apple" smartphone can count on the fact that the manufacturer will support their devices for four years. At the same time, developers have to test applications only the minimum amount of gadgets and operating system versions.