If you read the source article, they say "From our perspective it's pretty cool to have our app work on such a wide variety of devices and Android OS variations."
Saying Android is fragmented because of many unique OS strings is kind of like saying the web is fragmented because of many unique user-agent strings.
It's apparent that TweetDeck understand this, but it seems Engadget just highlighted the "Fragmentation" aspect to drive page views.
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If you read the source article, they say "From our perspective it's pretty cool to have our app work on such a wide variety of devices and Android OS variations."
Saying Android is fragmented because of many unique OS strings is kind of like saying the web is fragmented because of many unique user-agent strings.
It's apparent that TweetDeck understand this, but it seems Engadget just highlighted the "Fragmentation" aspect to drive page views.