At Google I / O Barry Burd asked two Android experts about their experiences
with fragmentation in the mobile space.
With fragmentation, it would be difficult for even a company like Google to keep updating the devices since for every device a separate team has to be created as the devices use completely different components.
Just like
with the fragmentation situation, Google is partly to blame for all these diverging user experiences on Android devices.
It's no secret that Android suffers problems
with fragmentation which lead to inconsistent update schedules across the board but a new report from SecurityLab shows that issue may be worse than most would think.
Despite earning lot more money and not having to deal
with fragmentation in iOS, third party App developers are finding it harder to write stable applications for iOS than Android (despite making less money, less incentive to improve stability and having to deal with lot more fragmentation).
Over on the Google side of the fence, Android has a well - publicized problem
with fragmentation, but considering that all of Google's apps update separately from the OS, it's not as a big a deal as you might imagine.
Among the many new features and improvements that it's supposed to bring, KitKat will supposedly finally deal
with the fragmentation issue that has plagued the Android ecosystem ever since the OS first launched.
The emphasis on formal elements of shape and rhythm as independent entities, along
with the fragmentation of forms, creates a tendency towards abstraction.
Developers that target Android are already having to deal
with fragmentation — BlackBerry 10 is just another dimension to that fragmentation.
In addition, the government has designed a new formula to deal
with the fragmentation problem mentioned earlier and to address equity issues.
The additionally fraught relationships between the protagonists seem to correlate
with the fragmentation of the global metropolis: speedy shots of Barcelona now render the city all the more hostile and discomforting, and the utopia has generally become a dystopia.17
In fact, during the summer 2002 program, a Detroit high school student conducted research in high - performance computing and simulation dealing
with the fragmentation of protonated diglycine (a small peptide ion) when it collides with a diamond surface.
With the fragmentation of the party system, combined with the First Past the Post electoral system, this election will be less of a national election, and more a complex series of local battles.
More often, efforts to deal
with fragmentation and pluralism focus on reforming the curriculum of a school.
A consideration of the difference between a hologram and an image made from a lens camera can play a significant part in the perception of undivided wholeness, as contrasted
with fragmentation.
But the community is more than ever before threatened
with fragmentation.
Not only did ethnic tribalism spring to life again
with the fragmentation of Christendom, but Christianity and Islam have each tended to develop further forms of tribalism — religious tribalism.
Soi's exploration of media imagery led him to experiment
with fragmentations and distortions of the human body and the environment around him.
Not exact matches
Samsung's premium smartphones typically release
with software that was introduced the year prior, but due to Android's heavy version
fragmentation, the Galaxy Note 9 would likely be one of few smartphones running Android Oreo.
However,
with the introduction of iOS 7, Apple is also going down the
fragmentation route, offering different features for different handsets.
«Each industry will wrestle
with the change in
fragmentation and consumption and needs to understand how these new data sources tie to their core business,» he says.
These risks and uncertainties include competition and other economic conditions including
fragmentation of the media landscape and competition from other media alternatives; changes in advertising demand, circulation levels and audience shares; the Company's ability to develop and grow its online businesses; the Company's reliance on revenue from printing and distributing third - party publications; changes in newsprint prices; macroeconomic trends and conditions; the Company's ability to adapt to technological changes; the Company's ability to realize benefits or synergies from acquisitions or divestitures or to operate its businesses effectively following acquisitions or divestitures; the Company's success in implementing expense mitigation efforts; the Company's reliance on third - party vendors for various services; adverse results from litigation, governmental investigations or tax - related proceedings or audits; the Company's ability to attract and retain employees; the Company's ability to satisfy pension and other postretirement employee benefit obligations; changes in accounting standards; the effect of labor strikes, lockouts and labor negotiations; regulatory and judicial rulings; the Company's indebtedness and ability to comply
with debt covenants applicable to its debt facilities; the Company's ability to satisfy future capital and liquidity requirements; the Company's ability to access the credit and capital markets at the times and in the amounts needed and on acceptable terms; and other events beyond the Company's control that may result in unexpected adverse operating results.
With Carrick's help, we intend to continue to capitalize on the
fragmentation and consolidation occurring in our industry.
With Google looking to crack down a bit on
fragmentation, Motorola will likely focus on stock Android devices in the future, and likely downplay its use of Motoblur, analysts said.
As a result, deepened
fragmentation on economic policies — particularly fiscal policy — will feed the European agenda
with tension in the coming year.
This results in what experts call «
fragmentation» — meaning there are hundreds of different versions of Android worldwide, many several years old, making it difficult to keep them current
with the latest security features.
With growing need for transparency triggered by MiFID II, the increasing
fragmentation and lack of liquidity, the changing participants roles are key factors in the fixed income market reshaping.
If Google were to do the same
with Nexus program or Google Edition devices, the
fragmentation across both platforms will be the same.
In a «Globes» interview today, Tal Inbar, head of the Space Research Center at the Fisher Institute for Air & Space Strategic Studies, stated, «The backbone of Hamas's missile batteries is the Grad missile, a standard 122 - mm rocket
with a 20 - 40 km range and a metal
fragmentation warhead designed to cause casualties.»
The way the university is constructed is indicative of its
fragmentation: many first year students live in one part of the campus, virtually devoid of contact
with the rest of the student population; some the colleges within the university have their own dormitories, which also contain classrooms and faculty offices; many of the dormitories house only students
with certain majors and contain the classrooms and faculty offices of those disciplines.
And here, in the late twentieth century, Orthodox and Protestant leaders began to pray in common
with the Bishop of Rome for an end to the
fragmentation of the Christian world.
How, where, when,
with what intention and
with what purpose did
fragmentation emerge?
In most cases they have overcome both political
fragmentation and government overload by replacing their old governmental bureaucracies
with an innovative and effective form of governance: coalitions (composed of business, government, nonprofits, universities, neighborhood and minority associations, and religious groups) that develop a cooperative agenda to improve the city and that assume many of the city government's traditional functions (economic development, long - term planning, educational reform, even care of the homeless), and that also operate like political parties of yore (providing the point of access for new groups and a public realm for discourse, debate, and negotiation concerning matters of the common good).
Fragmentation is the disconnectedness which flies in the face of interconnectedness, interruption of the flow of connection
with all be-ing.
Many evangelicals share
with process thinkers resistance to the
fragmentation of knowledge that characterizes the modern university and the world in general.
Indeed, it seems to threaten us
with an increase in that
fragmentation as more adequate attention is given in the theological course of study to more and more of the diverse ways in which the Christian thing is concretely actual.
But, in the Catholic case, Allitt, like most writers, falls prey to comparing the present apparent
fragmentation with the undoubted cohesiveness of the Church in the era of Pius XII.
As contrasted
with the modern worldview which is sustained more by habit than conviction and which has promoted ecological despoliation, militarism, anti-feminism and disciplinary
fragmentation, the postmodern worldview is postmechanistic and ecological in its view of nature, postreductionist in its view of science, postanthropocentric in its view of ethics and economics, postdiscipline in relation to knowledge and postpatriarchal and postsexist in relation to society.
The rebuilding of community is essential in a time of media - induced isolation and
fragmentation, and in this effort the churches will of necessity find common cause
with other community agencies.
Christians living in an inevitably pluralist society have an obligation to acquaint themselves seriously, without giving in to syncretist tendencies — another symptom of the
fragmentation of our time —
with the presence of the Spirit in other faiths.
For McLuhan the process of modern automation and mechanization began
with the introduction of the Gutenberg printing press where text and ideas became open to commodification and
fragmentation.
The underlying reason for the
fragmentation of theological schooling is deep confusion of proximate
with ultimate goals, a confusion of functional idolatry
with radical faith, the remedy for which must be a kind of repentance.
He seems to think that the problem of
fragmentation in the course of study can be overcome
with relative ease.
However, attention to these formal matters will not deal
with the roots of the issues raised by pluralism and
fragmentation because it does not challenge the ways in which the component courses are themselves defined and designed; it simply rearranges them.
This appears to be what happens, however unintentionally, when issues raised by pluralism and by
fragmentation are dealt
with by construing theological schooling as a movement from «source of wisdom» to «wise living,» or from «basis - of - theory» to «application - of - theory,» or from a mode of «inwardness» or «subjectivity» to «outward manifestation and expression.»
This way of defining the end of theological schooling, furthermore, risks dealing
with issues raised by
fragmentation in distorted ways.
Thus, communication and information
with people's participation may be an important way to attain their political self - hood, for such communication can overcome the domestication and
fragmentation of human beings and their community.
It arose historically along
with the modern
fragmentation of the disciplines, the overspecialization of intellectual labor, and the separation of church and state.
«The
fragmentation of the industry,
with many smaller uneconomic grape growers and wine producers, is problematic for pricing growth.
With Charlie Booth from Infinity Foods adding: «
Fragmentation is fine and good; I think we need it.