As we enter the final phase in the countdown to Android P’s public release, an intriguing new twist is becoming increasingly apparent: More than any Android release before it, Android P is first and foremost about Google’s Android phones.
That, my friends — to put it lightly — is a pretty seismic shift.
We first got a whiff of this new reality back at the Google I/O developers’ conference in May, when Google Engineering VP Dave Burke made the following disclaimer ahead of unveiling some of Android P’s most prominent changes:
