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 While Fire OS has always been an outdated mess of AOSP, it still supports large pool of apps with sideloading.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.
Hard pass.
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.
No, no, that’s about the Fire experience in a nutshell.
Android’s worst offense was accidentally increasing bloatware.
But, why?
That works if you’re dominant in the market, and you have companies rushing to make software for your platform. If you’re not, you end up as an also-ran platform with a handful of half-baked ports (like every “smart TV”).
My mind immediately went to the Fire Phone
