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With this week\u2019s disappointing release of the new Fire TV Stick HD<\/a>, Amazon\u2019s second streaming device to run its Vega operating system, the future of Android-based Fire TVs is looking bleak. Now, a new report from Janko Roettgers of Lowpass<\/a> claims that Amazon is going all in on Vega OS and plans to launch all future Fire TV Sticks with Vega. <\/p>\n Roettgers says multiple sources with knowledge of Amazon\u2019s plans have told him that all future Fire TV Stick releases will run Vega OS. Roettgers has a great track record of insider Fire TV information, as he was the first to report on the existence of Vega OS<\/a> in 2023 and the first to report that a Vega-powered Fire TV would be released in 2025<\/a>, months ahead of the Fire TV Stick 4K Select\u2019s announcement.<\/p>\n Unsurprisingly, Amazon has declined to comment on the situation. Instead of proudly celebrating its new in-house operating system, Amazon seems to be going out of its way to hide the existence of Vega OS from Fire TV customers. There is no mention of Vega OS or a new operating system anywhere in Amazon\u2019s press release for the new Fire TV Stick HD or on the device\u2019s product page. Given that it\u2019s meant to be a direct replacement for the previous Android-based model, you\u2019d think it would be at least mentioned once, especially since it has vastly inferior app support<\/a>.<\/p>\n The only hint that the Fire TV Stick HD runs Vega OS is the warning message at the top of the product page about it not supporting sideloaded apps. However, even that fact is being hidden by Amazon. Only select logged-in accounts are being shown that message. Logged-out shoppers and some logged-in accounts are not being told about the new model\u2019s shortcomings. It\u2019s unclear what account criteria qualify a user for seeing the message, but Amazon seems to want to show it to as few people as possible.<\/p>\n When Amazon first revealed Vega OS<\/a> on stage at its device launch event last year, it insisted that new Android-based Fire TVs would be released in the future. Amazon touted that it has \u201calways been a multi-OS company\u201d and reassured Fire TV customers by saying it \u201cwill continue to launch new devices on Fire OS.\u201d Since Vega\u2019s reveal and those promising statements about new Fire OS devices, there have been several new Android-based Fire TVs released running Fire OS, but they have all been smart TVs. This is likely because no TV manufacturer wants anything to do with Vega OS.<\/p>\n Amazon\u2019s early unwillingness to commit to new Android-based non-television Fire TVs<\/a> and this new report from multiple sources are pretty telling that there is no future for Android-based Fire TVs. Roettgers\u2019 report only references Fire TV Sticks, so that, technically, it doesn\u2019t include new Fire TV Cubes as being Vega-only devices, but I wouldn\u2019t put much faith in that either. If you\u2019re a fan of Android-based streaming devices and the flexibility, freedom, and openess that they provide, you\u2019ll probably be buying a Google TV device<\/a> as your next streamer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With this week\u2019s disappointing release of the new Fire TV Stick HD, Amazon\u2019s second streaming device to run…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[147409,966,74,257620],"class_list":["post-589735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-amazon-fire-tv","tag-article","tag-technology","tag-vega-os"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}