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Is Android broken, and if so, will Google fix it?

  • Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Google is getting what it wants from the Android platform: massive amounts of user data.

For developers, consumers and even carriers, Android seems irreparably broken. But Google will not fix the platform anytime soon, because despite its fragmentation problems, the company is getting what it wants: massive amounts of user data.

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