A recent developer blog post by Google gave an update on the long-running problem of Android fragmentation across the hundreds of devices that use the mobile OS. Although things are looking up, there is decidedly still a long way to go.

It would seem that the word “Android” pops up everywhere nowadays. It’s the in word when it comes to anything mobile related, a true challenger to the iPhone throne as king of the smartphone heap, so it is perhaps a little surprising that its creator, Google, seems to have been unwittingly holding it back from even greater glory.