Here Be Dragons - Using Stuff in Less Popular Country

Not much space left for label

I live in one of those small countries that nobody heard about until they appear in TV show. OK, there is more that that, but we are slightly off the grid. Nevertheless,  we are up-to-date with technology. Although vendors provide Croatian on almost anything (Windows, mobiles, TVs), I personally prefer English because labels are pretty standard. If you take any vendor's mobile phone, options are named similarly. For Croatian, everybody has its own naming convention, so it takes some time to get used to it.

Size of the Android's Fragments

Everybody knows that Android fragmentation is killing the platform. Android devices come in so many different forms that it is impossible for developers to cover them all, costs are killing them, and many already decided to switch to more homogeneous platforms.

Knowing that, Google's decision to make fragmentation data public seems to be completely unreasonable. That can only repel developers. To speed up this process, I took data from Google's Android dashboard and Nielsen statistics about smartphone marketshare and did some math.

Ad Providers Containment Chamber

No application is really free; it is always paid from either yours or somebody else's pocket.

You pay for paid apps; advertisers (usually) pay for free apps. Last year's explosion of cheap Android phones brought to Market many people who are not willing or able to pay for application. Logical solution for developers was to introduce in-applications ads, but now iOS owners would like some stuff for free, thank you. With ads came privacy issues.