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
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.
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.