Amazon plans to ditch their forked Android OS, Fire OS, and create their own.
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That will eventually happen, I am not surprised.
'The reason for the change? We’re not entirely sure but we can make a few guesses. LowPass cites industry insiders claiming Amazon’s plan is to reach “hundreds of millions of eyeballs on a wide range of inexpensive devices” and, from there, “monetize those eyeballs with ads and services”. '
(Shocked Picachu face)
Google is doing the same thing
Huh? Google is forking Android from themselves? What do you mean?
Fuchsia. Google is replacing Android in devices with Fuchsia.
Fuchsia has already been abandoned.
Well, at least for smart speakers. They rolled it out to home hub like two years ago and then this past year decided to not continue that path.
I was about to say, I’m pretty sure all my Google Hubs run it. The dept was hit by layoffs though, so I’m sure they downsized their goals.
https://9to5google.com/2023/07/25/google-abandons-assistant-speakers-fuchsia/
Oh, a new ecosystem. Don’t think developers are happy with that step.
Right. Google bought and developed Android to form a standard.
That pesky ole GPL