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Amazon Fire Tablets and other gear will reportedly switch away from Android (arstechnica.com)

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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 While Fire OS has always been an outdated mess of AOSP, it still supports large pool of apps with sideloading.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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

If you're buying a tablet from them and side loading the play store they are losing money. They sell Fire tablets for a loss to encourage you to buy stuff from their ecosystem.

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