Amazon's tablets get the Play Store; its streaming sticks leave Android behind
Amazon has dropped the Fire name from its tablet line. The new devices are Alexa Tablets, and Ars Technica reports they are Google-certified Android devices running full Android with the Play Store and the apps users would expect. The split inside Amazon's own hardware is the notable part: the company's Fire Sticks have moved in the opposite direction, abandoning Android for a custom Linux-based Vega OS.
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Amazon downplayed its use of Android throughout the Fire Tablet era; the new devices are Google-certified instead.
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Less a change of heart, maybe, than arithmetic: Amazon shut down its own app store last year, so there is less of a rival ecosystem to keep alive inside its hardware.