Fragmented in a sentence as an adjective

So what's so special about Android that people put the "fragmented" label on it, and why is that a big deal?

I think terrorism and extremists work best in fragmented societies.

The main issue is that the music buying public is jaded, fragmented and far less easily manipulated into buying than in the past.

The negative effects of fragmentation on developers and their user bases will still exist even if your platform is fragmented for "good" reasons.

But had they done that, they would have ended up with a fragmented ecosystem, and unable to brag about how so-and-so-many percent of users upgraded to the latest iOS.

" Trimming even an SSD with a heavily fragmented filesystem takes only a matter of seconds because the commands to send to the firmware of the SSD are very simple, very low bandwidth.

Summary: Firefox has a bunch of long-living system javascript objects; these get fragmented in the javascript engine's heap and end up keeping alive a bunch of mostly-empty chunks of memory.

My gripe is with the current gouging of consumers by hardware manufacturers/cell phone companies, of the fragmented/poor/outdated hardware coverage in many models, lack of upgrades, et cetera.

That page includes a striking way to explain the other systems to Americans: These four models should be fairly easy for Americans to understand because we have elements of all of them in our fragmented national health care apparatus.

Fragmented definitions

adjective

having been divided; having the unity destroyed; "Congress...gave the impression of...a confusing sum of disconnected local forces"-Samuel Lubell; "a league of disunited nations"- E.B.White; "a fragmented coalition"; "a split group"

See also: disconnected disunited split