Amazon Fire Tablets and other gear will reportedly switch away from Android::TVs, Echo Show, and other gear could sport Amazon’s in-house replacement soon.
This seems like a bad plan. While Fire OS has always been an outdated mess of AOSP, it still supports large pool of apps with sideloading. This is also probably expensive to build and they continue losing large amounts with their Alexa stuff. I wish for a third option besides just Android and IOS ,but I’m not holding my breath for this being it.
Yeah, the chances of them getting any serious development going on beyond the basics is pretty low. Why would a developer add yet another platform to their workload? The ones that do double duty with iOS and Android both already complain about it being a pain in the ass.
You’d be dealing with a new market, so any dev is going to be sinking time and work on spec, hoping it’s going to have enough users to repay their work.
I can see the usual steaming services shrugging and adding the new platform in, but you’d need a hell of a lot more than that if they plan to switch the fire tablets away from an android base.
Even the firestick moving away from an android base is going to alienate a lot of users. That ability to sideload stuff is a bigger draw than I think amazon realizes not a majority, no; but a big enough niche matters.
I can see the usual steaming services
Freudian slip or intentional? Either way, it’s perfect!
Microsoft gave up far too easily. We should have a Windows phone.
But the better alternate to iOS did not win. Google had the funds to push Android forward, where WebOS did not.
Honest question for everyone. And sorry if I sound biased. But does anyone’s fire tablet not run like shit? All the ones we have are slow to load, buggy, and seem full of bloat.
My mind immediately went to the Fire Phone
But, why?
Easier to monopolize the apps you install on their devices.
Control, greed, money.
Kind of off topic, but can anyone suggest an alternative to Google TV? I have an old version that is fine, but this i recently purchased one with the new UI and it is horrible. I haven’t tried replacing the home app yet, but will try soon.
Nvidia shield?
Shield is stuck with the new UI too (tho alternative launchers can be installed). Honestly it doesn’t bother me as much as other people tho
Maybe put kodi on a raspberry pi?
just install another launcher?
That’s what I meant by home app. I haven’t had the chance to do so the work necessary for it.
What is Amazon?
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