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All this just increases nervousness about the lack of unity in the Android platform. Some of this is ill-founded, or will be reduced once the OS stabilizes and fewer updates are needed. But some of the most well respected figures in mobile software are concerned too, even those working for companies which are Android partners, such as Benoit Schillings, formerly CTO at Nokia and now in the same position at cross-OS, mobile Java firm Myriad. "They are using Java, but they aren't implementing any well-known Java framework, and really that just creates another standard to support. The risk they take here is that they might fragment the market further," he said. Google pushes a hybrid approach combining a subset of Java and native apps, rather than pure mobile Java, and Android does not fully support C programs.

Google has talked up its flexibility for developers. Senior engineer Mike Cleron said in a recent interview: "We wanted the platform to be open in a lot of different ways. The idea is that anybody can come along and replace the pieces of the Android experience on a very fine-grained level. The existing APIs didn't really allow the level of openness we were hoping to achieve in Android."

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