- Fire TV Sticks can move to a new operating system later this year
- Vega OS already works on certain echo devices
- Third party televisions can stick to Android for the moment
Amazon brings enormous changes to its Fire TV platform this year in a decision that comes to us definitively from “what could be wrong?” Files.
A new report indicates that Fire TV Stick devices will send with a brand new operating system later this year. The devices are currently performing a modified version of Android, but the move will be to Amazon’s own operating system.
As a person who fears inevitable problems that even minor software or a change of firmware can cause, I am not sure that this will be a gentle transition with each bug and trapped incompatibility from the first day. And this will also reduce the flexibility of future fire television devices.
What is Amazon doing with its FIRE TV software?
According to Janko Roettgers, well -informed television technology editor, Amazon “courts the main publishers” to provide their applications to the new operating system: unlike the current operating system, Vega will not support Android applications and they cannot be postponed.
Although Vega OS has not been officially announced, it will arrive on a new TV streaming device no Android later this year according to Roettgers.
VEGA is based on the Linux operating system, and Roettgers discovered its existence in 2023. It already supplies the Echo 5 show, the Echo Hub and the Echo spot.
Roettgers says that some big names are already on board. “I have been able to confirm that Paramount, Rakuten and the BBC UKTV subsidiary are among the publishers’ television applications using the Kepler SDK,” said the report.
It does not seem that the decision will apply to Fire television televisions by Amazon partners: they seem to go to Android 14, on the basis of other documents. Perhaps this update will also arrive at the sheets of sheets and existing cubes.
However, speculation that this Android 14 movement noted that Vega was abandoned seems to be incorrect, at least according to Roettgers. The great danger here is that Amazon could end up publishing a new device lower than existing existing – with more limited features with application, less well placed and more chances of bugs and problems.
The launch of Vega on Fire Sticks would have already been delayed once, and there is not much time to polish all the applications and prepare a launch in 2025, so maybe it will be postponed – look at this space.
