In a blog post, Google says that thanks to Treble, it anticipates more devices running Android 9 Pie at the end of 2018, compared to the number of devices that were running Android Oreo at the end of 2017. Google made a similar claim last year, when Project Treble was first introduced alongside Oreo, but it seems the company really means it this time around.

Also, bear in mind that it wasn't until February of this year that Google announced Nougat had become the most-used Android release, 17 months after its summer 2016 launch. Treble aims to close these kinds of gaps, and if the framework comes as standard on new devices going forward, it won't be too long before more people are on better versions of Android, which is good news for features and security, and for staving off the competition.