Google is taking a completely opposite stance to fragmentation that everyone originally thought. In an interview with Gizmodo, Android Head Andy Rubin said he isn’t concerned about fragmentation indirectly after Gizmodo asked Rubin how he felt about delays in Android OS updates from the company’s hardware partners.

Gizmodo asked:

“We’re up to Froyo 2.2 now, but we have devices with custom interfaces, which often lag behind latest version of Android. People with, say, a Droid Eris or a Hero waited around 6 months or longer just to get to 2.1, and now 2.2 is coming. So how do you address that sort of issue and where does Google stand on that type of thing?”

Android Head Andy Rubin Responded:

“I mean, if I was like a dictator I would enforce this stuff and everyone would have to have the same version at the same time and there would be a big switch with great fanfare, but it’s just not in the cards. So we’ll do a great version, and if they decide to adopt it, they’ll adopt it. The difference between those two models: The first model, it’s really hard for people to differentiate, everybody gets the same thing. So you are kind of commoditizing a whole slew of companies in the process and that’s painful because people will literally go out of business potentially. In our model, it allows differentiation. At the platform layer, it is still compatible, so the apps in the marketplace will still run in the platform. But yeah, they have to modulate how quickly they can put their differentiating features on top of the base platform, and that’s a race.”