I suspect if they could "just" (!!) virtualise, they would have already. Modern phones are amazing but they have limits. Google undoubtedly has the singular oo

I suspect if they could "just" (!!) virtualise, they would have already. Modern phones are amazing but they have limits. Google undoubtedly has the singular oompf to launch a brand new OS, I just haven't seen a reason yet. The few things they say they want to improve upon aren't limitations in Android (or Linux). Third party vendors and their chip makers are going to —perhaps rightly— view this as an Emperors New Clothes upgrade and resist. They're going to have to make a business case somewhere along the line. Let's wait for a production release before we start the Android/Linux death knell.