@choffy21 Fragmentation of the default search provider is not going to hurt Android. When people speak of fragmentation on Android they are speaking of different versions (1.5, 1.6. 2.1). This however does not hurt Android. If it's 2.1, then it won't have problems with apps; developers won't have to develop differently in order to make an app compatible with this phone just because the default search is different.
As for version fragmentation, with all phones in the US having announced a future update to 2.1, that should be resolved soon.
@choffy21 Agreed -- but the fact that Verizon just did it will pretty much ensure that AT&T follow's suit. Especially with the iPhone in AT&T's back pocket; AT&T has all the leverage.
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More evidence of Android fragmentation. Google needs to ensure this doesn't happen in the US. Stop AT&T before other carriers start to do it as well.
@choffy21 That wouldn't be very open of them now would it. Looks like the Whole Linux doomsday theory is slowly coming to pass.
@choffy21 Fragmentation of the default search provider is not going to hurt Android. When people speak of fragmentation on Android they are speaking of different versions (1.5, 1.6. 2.1). This however does not hurt Android. If it's 2.1, then it won't have problems with apps; developers won't have to develop differently in order to make an app compatible with this phone just because the default search is different.
As for version fragmentation, with all phones in the US having announced a future update to 2.1, that should be resolved soon.
@choffy21 Agreed -- but the fact that Verizon just did it will pretty much ensure that AT&T follow's suit. Especially with the iPhone in AT&T's back pocket; AT&T has all the leverage.