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Amazon’s updating the foundation of Fire OS to something a bit more modern

• mikece 4y ago
  Why not base FireOS on GrapheneOS? Natural synergy in that they are ripping out the Google-specific bits which sets the stage for them to add in the Amazon-specific bits. Seems like it would be a win-win to me. (Even better would be if the Fire devices could be loaded with GrapheneOS so they didn't phone home to Amazon either, but I get that Amazon sells these things at a loss in order to make it up on sales of digital content.)
  • aaaaaaaaata 4y ago
    Amazon would likely rather retain (and re-use with their own back end) some APIs that Graphene won't.
    • mikece 4y ago
      Exactly: Amazon would need to remove the Google APIs first and then add the Amazon APIs. The spot in between is where there could be synergy with Graphene OS. The Graphene project tracks pretty close to the official AOSP releases so FireOS wouldn't get so far behind AOSP@current.