Amazon Making Its Own Linux-Based OS to Replace Android
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I was really excited. Until reading this.
If you only need native platforms and/or just want to use the web target as an app demo, it's a good option, it feels very solid and productive
And it begat JSON, which is nice.
React itself became quite a mess as well nowadays, it's becoming bigger and more bloated with each release. You can now very easily re-create the AngularJS hell in React.
JavaScript doesn't scale in productivity and in terms of performance, TypeScript solves the productivity problem, but you still suffer a lot due to JavaScript's poor runtime performance characteristics.
Maybe just the modern Nintendo strategy of having no third party software is enough, works out. Maybe the big mainstreams apps will all sign up.
> when apple has shown you can lock down a 30% tax on all app installs and draw no attention for some reason.
Have you looked at the Nintendo store?
The tl;dr is that Amazon already uses a fork of Android called FireOS. However, Google makes manufacturers sign a contract that says that if they manufacture devices that run Android, they cannot manufacture other devices that use forks of Android. This was making it difficult for Amazon to find manufacturers that could make device with FireOS, so Amazon is ditching Android entirely.
0: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/amazon-fire-tablets-...
This would prevent Amazon from shipping those but they wouldn't be refused by factories.
This is more likely about control/NIH.
I mean, it's almost literally what MS was doing with windows back in the 90s, isn't it?
If it's an anti-trust violation, then it's an anti-trust violation whether it's a fork of Android or not. If it isn't an anti-trust violation, then Google can ban things that aren't forks of Android too.
If it's legal for Google to force manufacturers not to use Android-based FireOS, then they could also force manufacturers not to use Vega-based FireOS. It feels like Amazon needs to challenge the legitimacy of those Google contracts or else they may find themselves in another situation where Google just amends their manufacturer contract to disallow Android forks and Vega-based FireOS.
Actually, the law often turns more on the intent of the person being investigated than on what they do. (Is this a good idea? No.)
Google can claim a more convincing fig leaf when they're regulating Android than they can when they're just saying "also, you can't work with Amazon". And that slight difference in plausibility can make a big difference in whether the same contractual clause is legal or illegal.
"Hey, y'all can have our source code, but no one big try to copy our business plan with it"
(And I say this as a grudging Android user. Better than the Apple nanny state... sorta.)
The fence is adtech. The robbers are anyone taking your device/behavior data to sell to third parties aka adtech and data brokers, "de-identified" or not.
The more robbers get a toehold inside your house, the more snake oil you're subjected to.
Cool. If it's not completely locked down like android and lets you access the console and has a real graphics toolkit, I could see it being being more useful than android.
But there is a silver lining: Amazon is a million times more human/user/customer friendly than Google. No more random account cancellations and human friendly UI.
>Vega is primed for lower-power devices that struggle with the bloat that Android, ostensibly a mobile phone OS, comes with,
What bloat? Android already is designed for low power devices.
Of course Amazon adds it's own adware in FireOS so moving to another OS won't improve this.