I can't see this kind of thing having much in the way of legs in a large corp. Given Android's archetype (software solution to closed hardware), this puts such a project into a much more difficult position politically and financially. Will a solid BLE stack sell phones? Hard to say how it could drive that narrative, realistically, and even harder to say if such a controller could be made cost effectively. That being said, building silicon is non trivial work, and building a BLE stack and controller is even more so. Prior to Android, all we had were closed source low powered feature phones and Blackberries. It's always been a software answer to a hardware problem, even today. Standard disclaimer follows: I rejoined in the last two years, what follows are my opinions, these opinions are my own, blah blah.Īndroid has never been about driving the hardware narrative - it's always been about building a phone with mostly open contributions and driving the start of a wedge to open up the phone industry a bit. I can't speak to this directly because of numerous reasons, chiefly among them being that I don't get to make those decisions.
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