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Have you not heard about Project Treble and the HAL separation efforts going on? Google is indeed trying to innovate here. With Android 8 at least, the situation should improve - it might take some additional enforcement through Play agreements and such to really get it locked down though.

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That won’t help with many kernel related issues or issues in the HAL drivers themselves, only userland.

The OEMs are still the ones expected to push updates....

For now, yes, but it opens up the possibility of changing that down the line or for users to manually perform those updates.

As we say in Portugal, better wait seated.

It's primarily the chipset vendor (i.e. Qualcomm, Nvidia, etc.) at fault for lack of updates, not the OEMs. Treble removes one more excuse for OEMs to hide behind. (Not to mention the infrastructure is now in place for Google to push device-agnostic system images directly.)

I don't belive it will change anything, unless Google actually forces them.

My brand new 2017 LG stuck on Android 6.0 kind of proves the point.

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