> The purpose of ARCore is for high-end Android devices to be competitive with the iPhone technologically, not to get on 2 billion devices, at least not now.

This article is explicitly spun to promote ARCore as "Android scale" and leads with a sentence pointing out that Android is on two billion devices.

You're right, their ambitions are much lower, but it's fair to point out their actual goals aren't anywhere near the image they are trying to project and they really shouldn't be bragging about it being "Android scale" when it's nothing of the sort.

It'll only do that if ARCore itself takes off. With such small penetration, it's entirely likely that developers will just focus on Apple's ARKit.

And obviously a very good driver to get people to upgrade to high-end Android phones. There aren't too many use-case drivers for that right now.