There are nearly 19,000 distinct Android Devices(qz.com)
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There are nearly 19,000 distinct Android Devices
http://qz.com/253153/one-way-to-tell-how-rich-a-country-is-look-at-its-profusion-of-android-phones/
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> There are nearly 19,000 distinct Android Devices
I would have said "models", not "devices". But the point is clear -- there are a lot of different configurations and hardware, all described as Android devices.
I regularly hear from people who say one of my Android apps won't work on their device. At first I would try to adjust my software, but as the years have gone by, I realized there are too many fringe cases that don't have anything remotely resembling a standard set of features -- even if they're formally running some Android version and have some "standard" set of hardware features.
I would have said "models", not "devices". But the point is clear -- there are a lot of different configurations and hardware, all described as Android devices.
I regularly hear from people who say one of my Android apps won't work on their device. At first I would try to adjust my software, but as the years have gone by, I realized there are too many fringe cases that don't have anything remotely resembling a standard set of features -- even if they're formally running some Android version and have some "standard" set of hardware features.
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