Amazon's Fire TV Devices Might Soon Ditch Android in Favor of Vega

For the longest time, Amazon's tablet and TV devices used a slimmed, somewhat locked-down variant of Android called Fire OS. This was useful for end users for general familiarity and ease of use, and also for techies, who found the devices easy to hack to add functionality. All things must change and evolve though, and to that end, Amazon is purportedly readying up its first device with its in-house Vega OS.

According to the website Lowpass, Vega is a Linux-based operating system, first heard of in late 2023. Vega was apparently already in a "fairly advanced" state at the time and had been tested on Fire TV streaming adapters. The newfangled OS already powers some products in the Echo line, but not yet any streaming devices. One such bit of kit was expected to pop up somewhere in the 2024 time frame, but ultimately didn't materialize.