{"id":956472,"date":"2025-08-21T08:35:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T03:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=956472"},"modified":"2025-08-21T08:40:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T03:10:57","slug":"amazon-looks-to-ditch-homegrown-software-for-android-in-fire-tablet-revamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/21\/amazon-looks-to-ditch-homegrown-software-for-android-in-fire-tablet-revamp\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon looks to ditch homegrown software for Android in Fire tablet revamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO: Amazon is plotting a big change to its Fire tablet lineup following years of escalating gripes from consumers and app developers over the company&#8217;s homegrown operating system. <\/p>\n<p>As part of a project known internally as Kittyhawk, Amazon plans to release a higher-end tablet as soon as next year offering the Android operating system software for the first time, according to six people familiar with the matter. Since the Fire tablet&#8217;s introduction in 2011, Amazon has used what is known as a &#8220;forked&#8221; version of Android with custom modifications that make it work like a unique operating system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO: Amazon is plotting a big change to its Fire tablet lineup following years of escalating gripes from consumers and app developers over the company&#8217;s homegrown operating system. As part of a project known internally as Kittyhawk, Amazon plans to release a higher-end tablet as soon as next year offering the Android operating system software for the first time, according to six people familiar with the matter. Since the Fire tablet&#8217;s introduction in 2011, Amazon has used what is known as a &#8220;forked&#8221; version of Android with custom modifications that make it work like a unique operating system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-956472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}