- Fire TV Sticks can go to a new operating system at the end of this year
- Vega is already running on some echo devices
- Third -party firefighters can keep Android for now
Amazon is making great changes in its TV Fire platform this year in a movement that is definitely coming from “What could go wrong?” Archives.
A new report says that Fire TV Stick devices will be sent with a completely new operating system at the end of this year. The devices currently execute a modified version of Android, but the movement will be for the Vega de Amazon operating system.
As someone who fears the inevitable problems that even a minor software or a firmware change can cause, I am not sure that this is a transition without problems with each error and incompatibility trampled from the first day. And will also reduce the flexibility of future Fire TV devices.
What is Amazon with your Fire TV software?
According to well -informed television technology writer Janko Roettgers, Amazon is “courting the main editors” to bring their applications to the new operating system: unlike the current operating system, Vega will not admit Android applications, and cannot be carried.
While Vega has not been officially announced, it will reach a new non -Android TV transmission device at the end of this year, according to Roettgers.
Vega is based on the Linux operating system, and Roettgers discovered its existence in 2023. The Echo Show 5, the Echo Hub and the Echo Spot already feed.
Roettgers says that some big names are already on board. “I have been able to confirm that Paramount, Rakute and the UKTV subsidiary of the BBC are among the TV applications of the creation of editors that use the Kepler SDK,” says the report.
It does not seem that the movement will apply to Fire TV Television of Amazon members: they seem to be moving to Android 14, based on another documentation. Perhaps that update reaches the existing bars and tv cubes.
However, the speculation that this Android 14 movement meant that Vega was being abandoned seems to be incorrect, at least according to Roettgers. The great danger here is that Amazon can end up launching a new device that is lower than existing ones, with a more limited application, less embedded characteristics and more possibilities of errors and problems.
According to the reports, the Vega On Fire Sticks launched has already been delayed once, and there is not much time to polish all applications and lists for a 2025 launch, so maybe it will go back again, look at this space.
