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>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 company's homegrown operating system. As part of a project known internally as Kittyhawk, Amazon plans to release a higher-end tablet as soon as next year offering the Android operating system software for the first time, according to six people familiar with the matter. Since the Fire tablet’s introduction in 2011, Amazon has used what is known as a “forked” version of Android with custom modifications that make it work like a unique operating system.

Archive: https://archive.today/VleP2 From the post: >>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 company's homegrown operating system. As part of a project known internally as Kittyhawk, Amazon plans to release a higher-end tablet as soon as next year offering the Android operating system software for the first time, according to six people familiar with the matter. Since the Fire tablet’s introduction in 2011, Amazon has used what is known as a “forked” version of Android with custom modifications that make it work like a unique operating system.
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Humm... A commercial tablet running the non Google FOSS version of Android. I could like that for a decent price.

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I understand why the forked it in the first place but it was not for the reasons I would have. They did it because they wanted to vendor lock you not to control/fix/improve features that the base maybe didn't have.

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Oh I know. I have 3 fire tablets. If you install the alternate stores (fdroid, aurora) you can still run about 90% of the apps. The ones that cause problems are the apps that absolutely depend on the Google infrastructure. The most common "problem" is some apps don't give notifications.