After the disappointing information from OnePlus informing customers that their present units gained’t help Challenge Treble, one other producer joins the ranks. Lately, Nokia launched a press release saying that their present line up of Android units won’t help Challenge Treble. That is very disheartening to listen to as each OnePlus and Nokia are thought-about because the customer-centric firms, and their incapability to help Challenge Treble paints a really gloomy image for units from different producers.
It’s no secret that Google is battling the issue of fractured Android ecosystem for the reason that launch of the Android platform. To place issues in perspective, On the time of writing this text, solely 20.6% Android units are operating on Nougat. The numbers for Oreo are much more absurd, coming at solely 0.3%. Nevertheless, with Android Oreo, Google gave producers an answer within the type of Challenge Treble.
Challenge Treble brings a modular base to Android, primarily splitting and separating the seller particular {hardware} code from the Android framework code permitting producers to immediately push the Android updates with out interfering with their overlaying interface. Though the units which launch with Android Oreo will include Challenge Treble onboard, it was additionally believed that the units that get up to date to Android Oreo may also help the identical.
Nevertheless, seeing the pattern created by OnePlus and Nokia, I’m not so positive anymore. Juho Sarvikas, who’s the chief product officer at HMD World, the mum or dad firm of the Nokia, took to Twitter to clarify why present Nokia units gained’t help Challenge Treble. In response to him, Challenge Treble requires two situations to be met:
- Adapt to the brand new Vendor Interface implementation
- Standalone Vendor partition to include Vendor Implementation
Treble requires 2 situations to be met:
1) Adapt to the brand new Vendor Interface implementation
2) Standalone Vendor partition to include Vendor Implementation
Nokia 8 doesn’t have separate Vendor partition in ROM house and the partitioning can’t be executed OTA.— Juho Sarvikas (@sarvikas) December 5, 2017
He additional mentioned that the present Nokia units don’t ship with separate vendor partition which is one thing that can not be carried out utilizing OTA. Because of this, no present Nokia machine is able to supporting Challenge Treble. All that is good, however contemplating the truth that Nokia 8 was launched in late August, and Google introduced Challenge Treble with Android Oreo again in June, it’s unhappy to see that even Nokia 8 doesn’t help Challenge Treble. Now, I’m solely hoping that different producers don’t keep it up the trail which Nokia and OnePlus have began. I’m dissatisfied to say the least, however do share with us your ideas within the feedback part beneath.
