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.

  • southsamurai
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    911 months ago

    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.