Nice set of features, that the majority of Android users will only get in a few years.
Maybe we should start making bets if Android Oreo be able to beat Nougat and be above 13.5% next year this time around.
Maybe we should start making bets if Android Oreo be able to beat Nougat and be above 13.5% next year this time around.
http://androidbackstage.blogspot.de/2017/08/episode-75-proje...
Key points:
1 - Google will keep on allowing OEMs to customize Android
2 - OEMs will keep being responsible for delivering updates
3 - OEMs are advised to push fixes upstream and provide updates
Given that they are just advised, and not required to act accordingly, do you want to bet how many will provide Treble updates instead of selling new handsets?
Treble will help out LineageOS, CopperheadOS, and XDA devs. But it won't improve the update cycles for OEMs when their business (ie profit aims) pressures them to limit development resources to new phones.
Because that is the actual answer. Everything else is a compromise trying to please vendors who are only trying to exploit users for profit through planned obsolescence and withholding knowledge of how their devices work.