Google's New Year Resolution Must be Android's Virtualization

After the many rumors about Google's Android being virtualized and productized as such on smartphones and tablets in 2012, people become more and more impatient to see their mobile operating systems with a fix for the update problem. Many experts say the solution to this issue is Android Virtualization and expect Google to introduce its productized form in 2012.

Android fragmentation and update lag is a very real problem. It undermines consumer as well as developer confidence in the long-term sustainability of the platform, this despite the fact that Android now occupies the lion’s share of the smartphone market.

Most of this lion’s share that Android has attained has been gained at the expense of Research in Motion’s BlackBerry which has been losing more and more market share every successive quarter due to lack of viable alternatives to both Android handsets as well as Apple’s iPhone.

If this Android fragmentation and update problem is left unchecked, it could ultimately result in customers defecting from the platform and pursuing other options, such as as the iPhone as well as even Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 offering, both of which do not have these types of problems.