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Originally Posted by stomachmonkey
Well to be fair it's not Apples and Oranges, it's Apples and a fruit basket.
There are currently 11,898 Android devices in google plays developer portal device list with a large percentage being simple basic phones, the ones you get for free.
Since the original iPhone in 2007 there are only ~34 distinct iOS phone and tablet models. One could argue we don't even need to count iPads since they are really just iPhones in a bigger form factor.
As a software developer I can test my app on any 1 random iOS device and with nearly 100% certainty am comfortable that it will work on all devices across the board.
For Android testing we only bother with Samsung, Pixel, Moto and LG because trying to perform compatibility testing beyond the flagship Android devices is unrealistic.
Let's not even get into the manufacturer /carrier specific versions of the OS that Android devices ship with.
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And that ladies and gentlemen is the difference between the manufacturer owning the os and them being created by different entities...