Right, the problem is with the Google Market, Amazon Market, et. al. It's not with Android as a platform (or operating system).
The problem is that Google copied the "App Store" idea for software distribution that Apple created for their iPhone. Instead, they should have gone with the same idea that Linux distros use: The product vendor is responsible for distributing the software for the product. That would look completely different from what we have now, but it would be a more natural fit to what Android really is.
Also, you could have made your point just as well without the ad hominem.
I don't see a personal attack in my message. Your original post suggested that android fragmentation is not a problem if I just think of it differently. A logical extension of that is that it's my fault for seeing it as a problem as I'm dealing with it incorrectly.
That doesn't make my users any happier. It doesn't make their bug reports go away. That doesn't make their phones all mount to the same mountpoint. It doesn't make me sleep better at night.
That's not an attack. Neither is claiming your viewpoint is one of a non-developer because pragmatically speaking a developer deals with these problems daily so "thinking of it differently" really makes no difference to the size of the problem.
Please don't accuse me of a logical fallacy here, thank you.
That's a horrible idea. Instead of hardware fragmentation we'd be stuck with market fragmentation. I have zero confidence in the manufacturers' abilities to foster a good marketplace. And they would have a monetary incentive to disable access to other marketplaces and sideloading, so there wouldn't be any competition, either.
The problem is that Google copied the "App Store" idea for software distribution that Apple created for their iPhone. Instead, they should have gone with the same idea that Linux distros use: The product vendor is responsible for distributing the software for the product. That would look completely different from what we have now, but it would be a more natural fit to what Android really is.
Also, you could have made your point just as well without the ad hominem.