Comments on: Android – Downward slope. https://www.radiofreemobile.com/android-downward-slope/ To entertain as well as inform Fri, 18 Apr 2025 06:25:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.26 By: Tim Nash https://www.radiofreemobile.com/android-downward-slope/#comment-1395 Wed, 15 Nov 2017 11:43:08 +0000 http://www.radiofreemobile.com/?p=4246#comment-1395 These days Google is a Machine Learning company funded by advertising. So the disadvantage of Android fragmentation is largely how that affects the captured data. Where Android manufacturers install Google apps this is probably not too much of an issue.

For Android manufacturers, they are building phones to a price point. In the mid to low end, this will mean using older components. So it makes sense to use a version of Android which runs quickly on those components, which will rarely be the latest. So fragmentation is likely to continue.

From this perspective Google Play and Pixel are self funding experiments. Pixel, for example, showing the benefits of ML with selfies.

IMO Google will keep the current propagation model for Android – its not worth the fight with manufacturers and governments.

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