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They are working on it. Currently several OEMs including Moto, Xiaomi, and Sharp are making AndroidOne phones. Project Treble further streamlines both AndroidOn

by Zigurd 9y ago

They are working on it. Currently several OEMs including Moto, Xiaomi, and Sharp are making AndroidOne phones. Project Treble further streamlines both AndroidOne and every OEM's porting. Absorbing significant market share from OEM partners isn't going to happen on the basis of a another couple of Pixel phones. It may come from rationalizing the platforms and porting requirements for Android.

dmitriid 9y ago
> They are working on it. The've been working on it for several years now. The result? Nothing is really happening. Let's take AR as an example. Google had Tango ~1.5 years before Apple announced their AR. Tango had rationalisation and platform requirements for Android devices. End result? - Tango was moving nowhere. There were ~0 devices supporting it. - Apple announces AR. It will be immediately available on ~200 million devices within a few months of iOS 11's release - Google scrambles to remove some of the requirements from Tango and launch it ... for the two top devices on the market only. Running Nougat and up. That is, ~14% of ~10% of the Android market. And the same goes for any other initiative that Google may have in the Android space.