[somedudetbh]

From the article: "So the Android ecosystem is split between at least 1,728 combinations of OS - Brand - Device Model"

It's actually _much worse_ than this. Here's a review of the "Samsung Galaxy S10+": https://www.anandtech.com/show/14072/the-samsung-galaxy-s10p...

This "device model" is actually two devices with completely different SoCs. There is no meaningful sense in which these two phones are one device. Sometimes the manufacturers document this, sometimes they just start selling a phone that identifies itself by the same name as an existing phone but with a GPU that has completely different performance characteristics.

[IshKebab]

It's probably not worse than that because he makes the totally incorrect assumption that Android version and device are independent, which is obviously not the case.

Most people update their phones to the latest available version for their phone, so it would be 144 OS-device-manufacturer combos (more or less).