Google can shift strategy - AR for all even without tango -
and I hope they can do it quickly, otherwise they are at a significant disadvantage.
Android's fault is over reliance on tango hardware because they are going for perfection rather than good enough.
I am quite happy that one year later Android N only managed to acquire 9% and KitKat is still rocking with 18%.
Maybe now that Google sees no one gets their new shinny OS every single year, they change their attitude.
Trello is not the solution as it is only available in Android O, it still leaves to the OEMs the choice to actually make it work and with Android N at 9% one year later, who knows how many years it will take until Android O becomes relevant at all.
I'm excited for Treble, personally. I'd like to slightly modify your statement to say that it's available for any device that supports it. Google Pixel and Pixel XL shipped with Nougat but they are using it to test the transition from a non-Treble system layer to a Treble-ized (?) one with Android O's release. So other OEMs could choose to support Treble on older devices, given that they meet the requirements and also have support from the BSP vendors like Qualcomm.
That said, I agree with you that it probably will still take some time before we see a huge impact, and it's a shame it's taken this long; better late than never, I suppose?
Thanks for the remark, yeah my device auto-correct does funny things and I do not always notice what it did.
> So other OEMs could choose to support Treble on older devices, given that they meet the requirements and also have support from the BSP vendors like Qualcomm.
The thing is Treble is nothing new, it is just the attempt N + 1 to sort out the update situation in a technical way, where the all issue is political.
Android already has an HAL that OEMs should adhere to [1], so if they haven't adopted correct behaviours willingly, it is not now that they will start doing it.
I am yet to see Android 7 devices at prices I am willing to pay, one year after its release, with 9% market worldwide.
Rooting devices is not an option for regular users.
Well, that only proves that people don't want to pay for security ;)
> one year after its release, with 9% market worldwide.
Android N was not released a year ago, it wasn't even announced a full year ago.
And when it was released it was so buggy OEMs had to wait until February for a fixed version.