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That seems like a very expensive way of avoiding talking to your wife.

Hey pal, their eyes are up there (like, waaay up there).

As Signal is open source, I guess someone could just fork it. It's not like anybody is really using it en masse as it is, and the kind of people who use it at the moment are also exactly the kind of people who would be happy to migrate to another service if they had a reason to.

Literally everyone in the UK uses WhatsApp, including 100% of my own extensive contacts. If I could download an open source rival app and still have full interoperability with WhatsApp users, I'd do it in a heartbeat. I've got Signal installed on my phone, but it's basically pristine and unused due to the lack of people to talk to. What's another app for the pile?

Legitimate question: would Signal or Matrix be the most desirable place to end up in a hypothetical post-WhatsApp Hegemony world? Or XMPP for that matter?

I've honestly never got my head around the difference in terms of the pros and cons of each.

Ah, fair enough then!

It's currently on Android 11, which is 3 major versions (and 3 years) behind mainline Android.

That seems like a bigger problem for Fire than it does Android TV. Android TV will continue to benefit from the smartphone and tablet ecosystem (which isn't going anywhere). If Fire breaks compatibility then it'll mean a worse experience for Fire users, but it's not going to affect Android TV users.

Although in practice I'd be surprised if Fire didn't continue to ship with an Android compatibility layer for exactly that reason.

Google still sell their own Android TV dongles (Chromecast), and big TV manufacturers still sell it as a smart TV OS (notably Sony).

Fire OS isn't Android TV anyway; as the article says, it's built out of an old fork of AOSP, and has no tie in to Google's services. I don't see that Amazon moving Fire products to a different base makes the slightest difference to the rival Android TV.

Depends on the business really. For my last employer (~19,000 deployed PCs, lots of fussy mission critical legacy applications), 2 years would be cutting it extremely fine. For my current employer (~30 employees, nothing more complicated than standard office applications in use), you could do the upgrade in a week.

I imagine my current employer won't be worrying about upgrading before 2025.

You might want to get that checked out if you haven't already... Or at least rethink your diet.

Jokes on you, I'm not an American so it really is free for me!

Sure, why not. That's all it means in the context of Disney+.