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My concern on devices running older versions of Android is app compatibility due to the fairly fugly OS fragmentation we see right now. Too many versions running on different platforms. I know that Android 2.xx is essentially geared toward phone size devices but just how long will developers support that idea? Or are my concerns not needed because to the end user there isn't an issue of cross-platform/OS version compatibility?
So I am just very leery of buying a new device running an OS from last summer that I expect to use for at least 4 years. I was burned by the fiasco that was the Nokia Internet Tablet running that awful OS-whatever and swore to never again buy into anything close to that experience. That is why I am liking Android but the fragmentation of the OS and the sense even v2.3 is already obsolete concerns me. I've just gotten too old to remain willing to stay on this disposable hardware idea we have seen mushroom with phones. I am totally tired of it in fact.
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