Android's growth in recent years has been exceptional, and not only Google, but popular manufacturers such as Samsung have benefited immensely from the new developments. IDC researchers predict that Android will grow at twice the rate of iOS. Looks like Google is on the right track with Android. And its recent decision to merge AI and hardware teams should ensure they stick to the same thing. For those wondering, here's what this merger of Google AI hardware could mean for Android.
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Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai's announcement that Google is combining its products and services and platform and ecosystem teams into the "Platform and Devices" team could mean that future Android updates will arrive faster.
The fact that the hardware team and the software team have merged means that collaboration will hopefully be much more seamless with reduced communication overhead. This would not only allow the platform and device team to push faster but also feature-rich updates.
The areas where I expect massive improvements going forward are firstly and obviously new and improved AI capabilities. This, followed by ironing out the irregularities in the current Android ecosystem that we believe is broken.
