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I think Apple pulled a good one on Android and other mobile OSes. With Android's ecosystem being so fragmented and Windows is still trying to get a foot hold on the apps market, a push to 64bit will further fragment their ecosystem.

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I'm not sure that I understand how the switch to 64-bit will further the fragmentation of Android. I would have thought that the Dalvik JIT would be ported to a 64-bit processor and the issue would be done. Short of running an application which requires more than 4GB of memory, why would a developer care if her code was running on a 32-bit or 64-bit processor?

I don't follow the mobile space, so I'm probably missing something.

> With Android's ecosystem being so fragmented

Except that's just FUD: http://www.phonearena.com/news/New-Android-and-iOS-fragmenta...

http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html shows it's not, although it's definitely improving. The best way for that to continue is not to pretend the problem doesn't exist but rather to keep reminding carriers and vendors that this is one of the reasons they're less successful than they hope.

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