Making headway with Android Pie

Google makes progress on tackling the Android platform fragmentation issue, with its latest OS update available, for the first time, on a non-Google device on the same day as its own Pixel phones

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Those who follow Apple zealously would have seen this coming.

At Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in June, a senior company executive once again carted out statistics to show how iPhone users are in lockstep when it comes to moving to the latest version of the iOS mobile operating system (OS), unlike the fragmented Android OS camp.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on August 29, 2018, with the headline Making headway with Android Pie. Subscribe