Amazon may drop Android and build its own next-gen smart home OS
- Amazon may be working on an in-house operating system called Vega.
- Sources say Amazon plans to eventually step away completely from Android and implement Vega across all of its products.
- Amazon could start shipping Fire TVs with Vega sometime next year.
Amazon tends to rely on a forked version of Android for its smart displays, TVs, and other smart home products. But the corporation could soon ditch Google’s OS in favor of its own. And the switch to Amazon’s new OS may start as soon as next year.
According to Janko Roettgers of Lowpass, Amazon is working on an alternative to Android for its hardware. Internally known as Vega, the OS has reportedly been tested on Fire TV streaming adapters, and Amazon has told partners about its plan to transition to the new OS. Sources close to the matter claim Amazon could start shipping Fire TV’s with Vega sometime in 2024.
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