Over the last few months, there’s been quite a bit of buzz (and some unease) building around a new kind of fragmentation that’s coming to Google’s Android OS. Up until now, the primary way people have downloaded third party applications has been through the official Android Market, an online app marketplace run by Google that’s analogous to Apple’s App Store. But things are going to get more complicated very soon.

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Google did something pretty interesting during their Q3 earnings call today: they gave some actual break-out numbers. Google CFO Patrick Pichette noted that this isn’t something Google has done before, nor do they plan to do it in the future, but he wanted SVP