In the past, there had been some fragmentation with different parts of the company serving the needs of partners.

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The other is fragmentation: in the past, cable companies have gone their own ways, producing boxes that could not work on each other's systems.

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Overall, 90% of developers thought Apple has either remained the same or gotten more difficult over the past three years in areas such as app submission, fragmentation and monetization.

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The utter fragmentation of the rebels into warring factions in the past three years is a big reason for the lack of progress towards peace in Darfur.

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How much of a benefit does Sauter attribute to market developments in the past 15 years, which include decimalization, high-frequency trading, increased fragmentation, Reg.

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