Finally!
Android isn’t terrible on these tablets, the way it’s been customised and tuned for Amazon’s purposes makes it terrible.
Going solo on the OS is an expensive mistake waiting to happen.
and that’s when I’ll stop buying fire tablets. Those tablets are best-bang-for-your-buck devices IMHO- I’ve had several, and use them both professionally and to read on.
I’m sure this will definitely work and not be a discontinued service in a few years.
Well darn of to getting a Roku stick now I guess. /yarr
I’m excited to see how the firestick competes against Apple TV, as that was on a whole different league on its own - other than 123movies and whatnot of course.
This is certainly a great shift, happy to see it
Wow, without the Play Store this thing will be DOA for many people
Google and Amazon can’t be trusted with hardware and here is just another reason not to trust them.
Amazon has hilariously bad UX on pretty much all their products, I’m pretty sure their OS is going to be no different.
Amazon has hilariously bad UX on pretty much all their products
I use Prime Music and Prime Video every day and have zero issues. Also Amazon is the No. 1 online retailer in the world. Have you compared the Amazon shopping experience to shopping via apps like Target and Walmart? Amazon is heads and tails a better experience and it’s not even close.
That’s a hard no from me. I’ve already had enough of Amazon’s walled off android version. Fire sticks were cool at first, but then I saw what options you had on Nvidia Shield and other Android devices, I jumped. Now I have several Nvidia Shields, they’re perfect for my needs.
yeah, bet people will just love that
Amazon will need an official reddit app.
Some of us despise google that much.
I’d wager that a significant portion of people who buy these tablets do so because they’re planning on turning it into a regular android tablet.
To completely remove that portion of your customer base while also killing your own 3rd party app support seems like a suicidal move.
I’m already not a fan of Amazon’s flavour of Android. So if that’s the case I will gladly switch to a normal Android TV and replace my sons FireTablet (which I installed Google Play Store onto)
That is what will probably be the case for a majority of the users out there. Tizen for Samsung didn’t take off. Hwa hwai is pretty much “banned”, and Apple pricing out a large block. So there isn’t any real reason for Amazon to attack the share in this market. Android centric platform will just gobble it up when planned obsolescence hits on the current products
Amazon make more devices than just tablets.
At a certain point it becomes more labour intensive and expensive to rig someone else’s OS to work across the hardware you’re developing than just building your own. The security systems, the fire sticks, the smart speakers, the WiFi nodes, all need heavily customised OS to work together.
The tablets are loss leaders anyway, a way to sell you Amazon products like kindle, prime video, Amazon music etc. if the OS is useable, and the device remains cheap, people will still buy it.