For all those who don't know what FUD means it stands for "Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt"
There is not an iota of substance to this article, it's sensationalistic scaremongering. If you doubt the media does this, this look up "summer of the shark." The tech media is no different, as Joe noted, this is a ploy for page hits.
His only real criticism is the fracturing of the OS, and as someone who just started developing, let me tell you this isn't as big a problem as it seems. But since the author gives little to no technical information to back up his doomsday prediction of a fractured world with a scorched Google earth, I will provide you with a technical anecdote of my own.
When I released my app, it was accidentally targeted at 2.0 and above in the SDK. However when a samsung owner asked me why they didn't see it in the market, I realized I had to try and quickly port it back to 1.5 and 1.6. You know how long that took me? About 10 seconds. I just had to click a button. Now my app is nothing special but it does use the recommended architecture for presenting a GUI to the user and writing data and maintaining a life-cycle.
Furthermore, maintaining backwards comparability and low system requirements for apps is stadard practice among developers. Frankly, I wonder if the guy who wrote this article thought the internet would die out because everyone viewed web pages on different computers.
It's absolute nonsense. It's an attack on open, customizable platforms designed to scare and anger Android developers and users for page views.
Android went from 1% to 16% of the global smartphone market last year. Ticking time bomb? Please.
Anywho, lesson for the day: don't believe everything you read in the media, especially the tech media.