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Perhaps they would have been better served by spending their time getting HBO-Go, Starz/Encore and Spotify all hooked into their little box Give it time. These

Perhaps they would have been better served by spending their time getting HBO-Go, Starz/Encore and Spotify all hooked into their little box Give it time. These are usually 3rd party apps not built by the provider of the platform (as a note, my company just finished building Starz/Encore/Movieplex Play for Xbox 360). The important thing is that Amazon provides an Ecosystem,it just needs some time for all the other offerings to get on there. The SDK just opened up to all third parties today as well https://developer.amazon.com/public/community/post/Tx1K5ORNNPOMUXA/Put-your-Apps-and-Games-on-more-screens-with-Amazon-Fire-TV https://developer.amazon.com/public/community/post/Tx1K5ORNN...

Osiris 13y ago
The SDK is a big deal. According to the page, existing Android code should just work. Some tweaking may be necessary to properly support the controller(s) and fitting to a 1080p screen. I'm looking forward to XBMC or other local streaming software coming to the platform. If that happens, this will literally be the ultimate set top box for me.
- nroach 13y ago
  It looks like Plex is available at launch, so my local media library should be playable (with transcoding) on day one.
- yincrash 13y ago
  Yup. It's basically just a Jelly Bean 4.2 (API 17) fork. Should be able to run anything JB can.
  - alttab 13y ago
    How do you know Amazon is forking Jelly Bean?
    - selectiveshift 13y ago
      https://developer.amazon.com/sdk/asb/overview-apps-games.html https://developer.amazon.com/sdk/asb/overview-apps-games.htm... The Amazon Fire TV runs Fire OS 3.0, based on Android Jelly Bean (API level 17).
    - whoisnatelam 13y ago
      You can also get more specs on it here http://bit.ly/1pLH83y http://bit.ly/1pLH83y
      - Flenser 13y ago
        no need to use link shorteners: https://developer.amazon.com/public/community/post/Tx1K5ORNNPOMUXA/Put-your-Apps-and-Games-on-more-screens-with-Amazon-Fire-TV https://developer.amazon.com/public/community/post/Tx1K5ORNN...
  - fpgeek 13y ago
    So Amazon's fork gets to Jelly Bean before official Google TV (still on Honeycomb) does? Ouch.

Osiris 13y ago

The SDK is a big deal. According to the page, existing Android code should just work. Some tweaking may be necessary to properly support the controller(s) and fitting to a 1080p screen. I'm looking forward to XBMC or other local streaming software coming to the platform. If that happens, this will literally be the ultimate set top box for me.

nroach 13y ago
It looks like Plex is available at launch, so my local media library should be playable (with transcoding) on day one.
yincrash 13y ago
Yup. It's basically just a Jelly Bean 4.2 (API 17) fork. Should be able to run anything JB can.
- alttab 13y ago
  How do you know Amazon is forking Jelly Bean?
  - selectiveshift 13y ago
    https://developer.amazon.com/sdk/asb/overview-apps-games.html https://developer.amazon.com/sdk/asb/overview-apps-games.htm... The Amazon Fire TV runs Fire OS 3.0, based on Android Jelly Bean (API level 17).
  - whoisnatelam 13y ago
    You can also get more specs on it here http://bit.ly/1pLH83y http://bit.ly/1pLH83y
    - Flenser 13y ago
      no need to use link shorteners: https://developer.amazon.com/public/community/post/Tx1K5ORNNPOMUXA/Put-your-Apps-and-Games-on-more-screens-with-Amazon-Fire-TV https://developer.amazon.com/public/community/post/Tx1K5ORNN...
- fpgeek 13y ago
  So Amazon's fork gets to Jelly Bean before official Google TV (still on Honeycomb) does? Ouch.