We’ve known the Android platform was fractured for some time. Stop a handful of Android owners on the street, and odds are at least one of them will be running an out-of-date version of the OS.

But we didn’t know it was this bad.

Santa Barbara-area entrepreneur Michael DeGusta created a chart on Thursday detailing the frequency of OS updates across the myriad devices running the Android software. The results are ugly.

Out of the 18 released Android phones DeGusta surveyed, seven of them haven’t ever run a current version of the Android operating system. It’s as if you were stuck perpetually run...

Apple woos businesses the way Dex woos women

“We pursue that which retreats.”

It’s a key tenet of the slacker philosophy espoused by kindergarten teacher Dex in the 2000 indie movie, the Tao of Steve. He’s explaining how a loser like him can get laid, but his words are also a nice summation of Apple’s marketing strategy for the corporate world.

While companies like IBM and HP dutifully host CIO roundtables, install fests, and Sting concerts to drum up enthusiasm with enterprise IT types, Apple has pretty much given them the brush-off. Late last year, it dropped its one product aimed squarely at...