Why Starbucks, BMW, Honda, Nike and Android are suffering from fragmentation: Starbucks is offering coffee is l... bit.ly/NVpRj7
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@vogella customization and fragmentation are not the same thing.
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@smeyen @vogella Customers love fragmentation. Developers hate it.
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@malagant @smeyen @vogella I call bullshit. 99.9% of customers are happy with 2 or 3 choices if stuff "just works".
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@stilkov Bullshit? 70 % marketshare for Android smartphones does not prove the desire for diversification? cc @malagant @smeyen
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@vogella No, not at all. No user chooses Android for that reason. I don't think any normal person consciously "chooses" Android anyway :-)
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@stilkov Spend a few hours in an O2 shop like I did last week and see the real world. ;-)
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@vogella I'd wager people choose, say, an HTC or a Samsung over an iPhone, but not Android over iOS. And mostly because of the cost.
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@stilkov AFAIK S3 is more expensive than iPhone. And you finally start to understand.Yes, people choose HTC or Samsung over iPhone. #choice
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Replying to @vogella
@vogella The original dispute was your claim that fragmentation is positive. I continue to maintain it's not. I don't object to competition

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Replying to @stilkov
@stilkov fragmentation is good for Android as the customer has choice. The customer may not be aware that he selects Android but he does.
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@stilkov Hence the Android platform wins by this choice.