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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 While Fire OS has always been an outdated mess of AOSP, it still supports large pool of apps with sideloading.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.

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RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Amazon don’t make money from sideloading.

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southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨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.

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- BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  I can see the usual steaming services
  
  Freudian slip or intentional? Either way, it’s perfect!
  
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- SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  The platform is React Native.
  
  Most programmers already know some JavaScript, even if they hate it.
  
  The “basics” will be any full featured website. That is hardly adding to a workload.
  
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raptir@lemdro.id ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
If you’re buying a tablet from them and side loading the play store they are losing money. They sell Fire tablets for a loss to encourage you to buy stuff from their ecosystem.

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TenderfootGungi@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Microsoft gave up far too easily. We should have a Windows phone.

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

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