Fragmentation on mobile phones is a fact of life -- one mobile application developer might have to build 200 to 300 SKUs for a single application. But carriers, hardware vendors, and software developers are increasingly cooperating on a common set of open source infrastructure, including Linux, Qt, and gstreamer. Bill Weinberg explains where the mobile phone market is going.
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