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by prof_hobart 5180 days ago
I agree it will get worse, but I don't yet see anything that suggests iOS is going to get close to the fragmentation that Android already suffers with.

Things like storage capacity and network availability are challenges, it's true. But they are things that can affect any device (you can fill up a 64GB device, and you can be in an area with no network), so they aren't really fragmentation issues unless your app requires huge storage or depends on a specific network type being available. Android by its very nature is always going to have a far wider variation than iOS. This is not necessarily a bad thing (there's more choice and more cutting edge options in Android), but it does create a fragmentation challenge of a totally different scale to iOS.