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Op-ed: It’s time for Google to take responsibility for Android’s security updates

Carriers and OEMs should be cut out of this part of the process.

Andrew Cunningham –

 

                  

 

      Google’s “Project Treble” aims to streamline Android updates, but when it comes to security, Google could still be doing more.

 

Last Friday, Google announced a major new initiative that promises to solve one of the many problems that keeps Android phones from being promptly updated. Coming as a part of the forthcoming Android O, Google will soon begin separating the Android operating system from the hardware-specific drivers and firmware on each individual Android phone in a move called “Project Treble.” If successful, Project Treble will prevent a repeat of what we saw last year with Android Nougat, when Qualcomm’s unwillingness to support the update on older hardware made it impossible for companies to release the update on older devices even if they wanted to.

 

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