The announcement of next release of Android OS – Android M is all but confirmed at the upcoming Google I/O conference which is expected to start tomorrow. Android M is expected to succeed Android L (Android Lollipop) and is currently known internally as the Macadamia Nut Cookie.
With Android M confirmed for 2015, it wouldn’t last more than a year before another major update comes out. This would come in the form of the Android N in 2016, the the Android O in 2017, Android P in 2018, Android Q in 2019, then it goes on like that.
Excerpts of an interview with FastCompany granted by Google’s VP of Engineering for Android, Hiroshi Lockheimer confirms this:
“As we’ve grown as a platform, we realize that to some extent predictability is important for the whole industry: developers, manufacturers, operators, and consumers, frankly. So we’ve landed with sort of a yearly cadence of big releases, so, for instance, one year we release J, the next year we release K, and then the year after that L, and then this year we’ll launch M, and so you can predict what will happen next year.”
Now that everybody knows what to expect, Google has to live up to the standard it is setting by bring major incremental updates and not just rushed ones.
Via: DroidLife
