News Amazon's effort to ditch Android on Fire TV may be taking shape

[AC News]

A deleted job post hints at Amazon making its own operating system to kick Android off Fire TV devices.

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[joeldf]

Wonder how that'll work with the library of apps that support Fire TV today.

Will they run in an android compatible runtime?

Will they need to be recompiled for a new OS?

Sounds like they want to try what BlackBerry did back in 2013 with the release of BlackBerry 10. A new OS that developers can write for, or just port the existing Android app and run in the Android runtime built into BB10. It worked, but was not well optimized. BB10 eventually died 8 years later.

(Technically, the OS still runs on the phone, but all back-end ID/Protect/support services and app store are all shut down).

Now, Amazon does have more resources and maybe slightly more pull (BlackBerry had to beg and even offered money to developers), and certainly more market presence, but they seem to be proposing a true third ecosystem.

I just don't see that working out very well.

 

[gendo667]

Wonder how that'll work with the library of apps that support Fire TV today.

Will they run in an android compatible runtime?

Will they need to be recompiled for a new OS?

Sounds like they want to try what BlackBerry did back in 2013 with the release of BlackBerry 10. A new OS that developers can write for, or just port the existing Android app and run in the Android runtime built into BB10. It worked, but was not well optimized. BB10 eventually died 8 years later.

(Technically, the OS still runs on the phone, but all back-end ID/Protect/support services and app store are all shut down).

Now, Amazon does have more resources and maybe slightly more pull (BlackBerry had to beg and even offered money to developers), and certainly more market presence, but they seem to be proposing a true third ecosystem.

I just don't see that working out very well.

My wife works for Whole Foods at a global level. I can tell you that Amazon is garbage at building their own software. I can't wait to see what they produce.

 

[Tigrisan]

I can tell you that my granddaughter has some favorite things she likes on YouTube and even that has to be downloaded every day because anything Google related disappears overnight. One way or another, Amazon is trying to eliminate anything Android and it's not just the operating system. I'm wondering when YouTubeTV will stop working as well.