Android's share of U.S. smartphone market passes 50%

Anyone who's seriously considering the argument that Android is not one operating system is just being delusional.

Platforms compete against other platforms, plain and simple. For example, it's a Mac vs. PC debate, not a Mac vs. Dell debate.

And for all of the hoopla about Android fragmentation - It's cyclical, just as Windows adoption was. Here's the proof - http://www.tech-thoughts.net/

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Android is not one phone. In fact, it is a series of mostly not upgradable operating systems. And it's not upgradable because Google has let the telephone companies determine if, and/or when users might get an OS upgrade. Since it is not in the telcos' interest to allow upgrades, they don't push them out.

Meanwhile, 80% of iPhone users are using the very latest version of iOS, with all of the enhancements and capabilities of the latest OS, on devices that are all patterned around a common user experience.

Actually, part of the reason for not being able to upgrade is that each successive version required higher classes of resources to run properly. Which you can also see is true in the iOS camp by how uneven the update is for older devices.

Another BS report that lumps dozens of proprietary versions of this OS into one.  At this point, it's a crock to call Android one operating system.

Android was a great idea, but Google failed to establish critical underpinnings that might have prevented it from becoming the fraud that it is today:

1. A hardware abstraction layer and driver model that would allow users to update their operating system as soon as a new version was released, instead of waiting months (or forever) for carriers or vendors to dribble out hacked updates.

2. Licensing terms that give users the ability to update their devices' OS at will.