[brutus1213]

This whole approach makes little sense for a developer (not to mention a user). When a consumer buys a phone at particular price point, they expect it to offer some level of performance. Now if devs can offload to these accelerators on a tiny subset of devices in the market, it will by definition lead to a fragmented user experience (and a ton more dev work). Why bother?

I am becoming convinced that CPU (and maybe GPU) is the only viable accelerator on Android devices. All these fancy accelerators are just for phone makers to do their own thing (mainly camera crap). Might as well make it part of the ISP.

Also, I fear Apple is going to eat Android's lunch at this rate :(