The big picture: Amazon uses a fork of Android called Fire OS to power its tablets and smart TVs, but it has also been developing a new operating system called Vega, with plans to ditch Android for ...

Amazon uses an Android-based operating system called Fire OS for its Amazon Fire line of tablets and Fire TV line of smart TVs. But a few years ago we learned that the company was looking to move away ...

Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) plans to switch from its in-house operating system to an Android OS when it releases its new line of Fire tablets next year, according to Reuters. The change to Android as the ...

Amazon’s potential abandonment of Fire OS represents a seismic shift in the company’s hardware strategy, signaling recognition that proprietary software limitations have hindered tablet sales and ...

Bezos’s empire fancies more cash from your telly habits Amazon is preparing to ditch Android on its Fire TV gadgets and shove in a home-grown Linux-based system codenamed Vega OS.… Bezos’s empire ...

It's an interesting move. We have one FireTV and the fact in runs Android means that support for nth-tier third party services is pretty good even without jailbreaking. A lot of things like: non-us ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Amazon (AMZN.O), opens new tab is plotting a big change to its Fire tablet lineup following years of escalating gripes from consumers and app developers over the ...

Amazon’s Fire TV devices have been running a fork of Android since the company began offering these products in 2014, but it’s now ready to move to its own operating system, at least according to a ...