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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 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
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.
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.
why in god’s name would it make any sense financially or logistically to forego android and start your own OS? “If you like Fire Tablets now, wait until they don’t run any apps you like and are buggy as fuck compared to the competition.”
They already don’t run many apps from the store and ARE buggy/slow…so probably not much different.
I have 3 flashed Amazon tablets. So I’m guessing that’s why
i had the original fire tablet and it was a big fucking piece of shit because of how restricted and special it wanted to be and i never looked back, even with how appealing the prices are
I assume this is more about users side loading a proper install of android after watching a YouTube video thus bypassing Amazons ads which are meant to subsidize the purchase price than anything else.
This isn’t possible. It has a locked bootloader.
You could debloat them and install play store until recently. Unless someone has broken through their blocks again.
Debloating just disables a few random background processes, installing the play store doesn’t really do anything because you can sideload apps anyway. Both of these things only run because Amazon allows them to, they could disable sideloading without making a whole new OS if they wanted.
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.