Android TV is now approaching full throttle after five years of negligible impact following the 2010 launch of its ancestor, Google TV. It could be a case study of how powerful companies can resuscitate a failing project or strategy by listening to their potential customers and it was the Operator Tier version that finally started lifting Android TV’s fortunes from 2016, with initially a few poster child deployments in Europe and Asia Pacific. These included Swedish cable company Com Hem and Vodafone Australia, but this still left Android TV shut out of tier 1 accounts and also the US, where the alternative RDK platform radiating initially out of Comcast had gained traction among the leading MSOs. At one stroke, Android…