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Amazon Fire Tablets and other gear will reportedly switch away from Android (arstechnica.com)
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Amazon Fire Tablets and other gear will reportedly switch away from Android::TVs, Echo Show, and other gear could sport Amazon's in-house replacement soon.

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[โ€“] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

No, no, that's about the Fire experience in a nutshell.

Android's worst offense was accidentally increasing bloatware.

[โ€“] crit@links.hackliberty.org 12 points 1 year ago

I'd blame Amazon on that one, you can get android to run pretty efficiently if you put enough time in tweaking it, look at all the custom ROMs getting modern android versions running on old phones and tablets.