OnePlus users launch petition for Project Treble support!

During an last week, the Chinese manufacturer officially declared that the new (but also all previous models) will not support .

This announcement has in fact baffled the users who decided to take things into their hands, by calling for a petition to ask the company to go back on its footsteps. The petition was submitted on the change.org portal and asks the whole community of OnePlus to re-evaluate the decision not to extend support to Google's Project Treble . This is a request made directly to Carl Pei, co-founder of the company, and Pete Lau, CEO and founder.

At the moment, the petition has raised little more than 5,500 signatures in less than a week, and it keeps collecting more as we write this article. The stated goal is to attain at least 10,000 signatures, so that they users can finally have the manufacturer's attention.

The petition is available if you are interested in signing. Google's , involves reorganizing the very architecture of in a modular fashion. This way part of the system will be separated from proprietary customizations, so you can make the updates faster in release. For now, is only available for devices that come with pre installed. However, for manufacturers, it is possible to adapt them by making available that support the project; the only downside is that this would require a complete re-elaboration of the proprietary firmware. This is probably the very thing that he would like to avoid doing.

Bron: Gizchina.it