Monthly security patches are extremely critical in a time and age where malware, hijacks and ransomware are rampant. Last year when HMD Global revived the Nokia brand, one of their key selling points was the promise of delivering security patch updates the minute Google made them available. Now, it seems Google is going to force everyone to fall in line. Google had last year introduced Project Treble as a means of speeding up the OS update process, by separating the core Android OS from the OEM layer. This was supposed to allow OEMs to update the core Android layer without impacting their own software implementation. However, as newer phones were launched, we learned that many of them did not support Project Treble. This is because Project Treble requires a separate system partition, which was never baked into any phone prior to Android Oreo. OnePlus even came out and said that they would not repartition the storage via an OTA due to the possibility of bricked devices.