This would be horrible for people who enjoy sideloading APKs.

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    1 year ago

    Amazon has been using “forked” versions of Android

    and specifically by using AOSP to “fork” the OS to skip out on Google services and heavily customize the platform.

    Bullshit. “Android” is a certification for AOSP builds with some ridiculous requirements regarding Google Apps. It comes after the fact; vendors want this cert, because Play Store must be shipped with “Android”. Amazon just skipped the step, like most e-readers and other applications. And AOSP/Android is always heavily customized for the usecase ( esp. Samsung does heavily customize lower level stuff of Android).

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        1 year ago

        They say, Amazon forked Android to skip out on Google, despite the base of everything Android (AOSP) – from which Amazon also builds their OS – being without “Google” to begin with.

        Btw, Amazon never used Android, the title is already wrong.