Android limitations?

Q.
What are the limitations of Android OS?

A.
All that we hear is about how well Android took over the mobile OS market. How much more we expect from Android mobile computing. How good it is free!

Behind too goods is always a big ? - what is the catch, right!?

Same is for Android. There must be some limitation some where. It cannot be 100% true that it is so great and yet free!

Below is some comments researched from various technical experts on limitations of Android.

Mobile Boy, 16 Apr, 2013.
Ref: http://www.techulator.com/experts/823-What-limitations-drawbacks-Android-operating-system.aspx

Limitations of Android OS:
Below limitations are based on comparing a single mobile from each OS. I posted only the drawback I frequently read about Android and my practical experience.

Little lag
Still an Android OS with quad-core processor has a little lag. I tried opening Temple Run game in iOS (iPhone), Windows 8 (Nokia Lumia 920) and Android OS (Samsung Galaxy Grand). Once I clicked the game icon Windows 8 and iOS responded immediately and showed 'Play' button, but I found there is a little lag in Android and it showed 'Play' button nearly after 30 seconds. In Windows 8 and iOS the game opened just like a 1 KB text file. This is unsolved problem in Android OS and many tech experts commented about this. This is the only reason iPhone tops every time.

Awkward design
Android mobile design is always awkward. When I have that above mentioned mobiles in my hand, Lumia 920 was eye-catchy. It looks very professional and impressed me a lot. We still love Android mobile only for its free apps.

Heat
If you use Wi-Fi connectivity for about a hour you can feel the heat in fuselage (back panel). I didn't notice this either Windows and iOS.

Most of the complaints were made for app crashes and lags. But Android is the only OS that provides you unlimited free apps. In Windows or iOS you need to buy each and every app.

You see, the limitation of one is relative to the ability of another. For example, she is short (hence cannot be model) and that is her limitation. In this context, height is a requirement to be a model, and there are actually taller girls who are made models.

So, in the case of Android OS, it is much in comparison to other OS, especially iOS.

Read about the difference between Android and iOS here.

Another issue with Android limitation actually routed to 'Fragmentation'. Below is extracted from news reporting by Simon Hill, in Yahoo News, February 11, 2016 - 'Android is losing its battle with fragmentation, and you’re paying the price'.

For ordinary folks who own a phone, fragmentation means that many Android users don’t have access to the latest and greatest features in the platform, but it has also been consistently raised as a major threat to security. Tim Cook famously referenced an article on ZDNet, entitled “Android fragmentation turning devices into a toxic hellstew of vulnerabilities” on a slide at WWDC in 2014. He even added animated flames to the word “hellstew” for a greater incendiary impact, and it played into a common perception of Android as potentially insecure.

What’s cited most often is the slow pace of adoption for new Android versions. Only 1.2 percent of devices run the latest Android 6.0 Marshmallow today, 34.1 percent run Lollipop (version 5.0 of the OS), 35.5 percent run KitKat, and the rest are still running older versions, according to the latest data from the official Android developer site. This is frequently compared to iOS, where Apple says 76 percent of users are on iOS 9, 17 percent on iOS 8, and just 7 percent on earlier versions.

[Hence, if you develop an App for the later version, it might not run well in the earlier versions of the same Android. And, this is an ongoing issue, older devices with older version of Android might not be able to switch to newer version of Android due to hardware compatibility. In fact, the bigger issue is manufacturers are not doing this updates because they want to sell more new machines which comes with later Android versions. Hence, these manufacturers refuse or ignore the need to periodically update the earlier devices by patches. This would render the older Android version becoming obsolete and vulnerable to security flaws.

That leaves many Android users with outdated firmware and potential security holes, despite the fact that the hardware they own is perfectly capable of running the latest Android releases.

Therefore, although you can reach the maximum number of mobile device, many of them just cannot run your App!

It is like you have the best sports car, but you do not have the racing track to run your engines!]

Ref:

http://www.diffen.com/difference/Android_vs_iOS

http://news.yahoo.com/android-losing-battle-fragmentation-paying-111542079.html;_ylt=A0SO8xzty71WCW4AsolXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTByNWU4cGh1BGNvbG8DZ3ExBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzYw--