Google to tackle Android's biggest problem, but it won't be easy

By Darren Orf
Updated May 30 2016 - 5:24pm, first published 11:29am
Android is more fully featured than the operating system that powers the iPhone, but only a fraction of Android devices get the full benefits.
Android is more fully featured than the operating system that powers the iPhone, but only a fraction of Android devices get the full benefits.

Google is angry — or at least that's what it sounds like when you read Bloomberg's look into the company's relationship with smartphone manufacturers. According to the report, Google is aggressively addressing Android's biggest problem: fragmentation, or the fact that few of Android's 1.4 billion users are using the latest version of the operating system. While Apple's iOS enjoys healthy adoption rates whenever a new update for the software rolls out, it takes manufacturers a very long time to adopt Android's newest features — if they ever add them at all.

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