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Amazon Fire Tablets and other gear will reportedly switch away from Android (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 year ago by L4s to c/technology
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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.

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[โ€“] N00dle 50 points 1 year ago (6 children)

This seems like a bad plan. While Fire OS has always been an outdated mess of AOSP, it still supports large pool of apps with sideloading. This is also probably expensive to build and they continue losing large amounts with their Alexa stuff. I wish for a third option besides just Android and IOS ,but I'm not holding my breath for this being it.

[โ€“] TenderfootGungi 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Microsoft gave up far too easily. We should have a Windows phone.

But the better alternate to iOS did not win. Google had the funds to push Android forward, where WebOS did not.

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