Amazon is reportedly developing a new operating system to power its ever-growing hardware portfolio. At present, the company uses its Fire OS, a fork of open source Android that sits inside the likes of the Fire TV Stick 4K Max, Fire Tablet series and Echo Show speakers. But that could be about to change — as early as next year.
According to a report in LowPass, Amazon’s forthcoming OS, codenamed "Vega", is already in the advanced stages of development and is being tested on Fire TV streaming sticks. It will be a “more web-forward application model” and take its foundation directly from Linux rather than forking from Android (which itself is Linux-based).
