![]() Detaching Itself From The MothershipĪs you can imagine, Google aren’t particularly keen on opening up the Google services and ecosystem to Android forks. ![]() With Fire OS, while it is based on the Android OS, it replaces the closed-source Google ecosystem with their own closed-source, walled-garden Amazon ecosystem. So, what most of us experience when we use an Android device is a combination of an open-source OS with a closed-source Google ecosystem. How is this possible? Without getting too technical, the Android most of us are familiar with can actually be divided into two things: the open source base – the "Android Open Source Project (AOSP)" – and the closed-source Google-branded apps and services. While it is built on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) variant of Android 4.2.2, Amazon have detached Fire OS from the entire Google ecosystem and built a whole new ecosystem of their own on top of the Android base. On whether Fire OS is actually Android, to put it simply, it isn’t. Recommended Reading: The Amazon Smartphone: Can It Compete? Is Fire OS Android? Kindle Fire users will probably be very familiar with Fire OS, but if you haven’t been paying attention to the Kindle Fire models and are only now beginning to entertain the possibility of purchasing an Amazon device, you’ll probably want to find out a bit more about this whole Fire OS thing and how it differs from regular Android. What’s more, it’s going to be the debut of Amazon’s Fire OS on smartphones, which will definitely be of interest to some observers. Sure, they’ve made tablets before, but the smartphone market is an almost entirely different ball game. The fact that it’s Amazon’s first foray into the smartphone market is also difficult to ignore. Amazon’s first smartphone is apparently coming out this week, and there’s a fair bit of interest in it, mostly due to the head-tracking functionality.
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