>>From what I can see, there was nothing in this thread about Windows PCs until you apparently brought it up when talking about fragmentation.
There was nothing in the thread about Windows Phone either until you brought it up. ;-)
Fragmentation is fragmentation. The phone market may be newer, but there's plenty of experience with fragmentation in the PC. Basically it's a big headache for MS and can be for users as well if something breaks- e.g. one of the updates messed up the video drivers on my PC last year. IMHO people only tolerate updates because of the security risk and many of my customers deliberately keep old OS for their own reasons.
Why are people determined that keeping the OS up to date suddenly will be a major priority for a phone user? If big security holes appear, obviously, but otherwise what's wrong with a device that just works? It's a very clever job that the blogger did documenting Android fragmentation, but unless people believe there was a simultaneous lapse in competence by the most successful phone manufacturers on the planet, perhaps there's more to the story. I've made a suggestion: if you're determined that it's wrong, that's cool.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1