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Perhaps they would have been better served by spending their time getting HBO-Go, Starz/Encore and Spotify all hooked into their little box

Give it time. These are usually 3rd party apps not built by the provider of the platform (as a note, my company just finished building Starz/Encore/Movieplex Play for Xbox 360). The important thing is that Amazon provides an Ecosystem,it just needs some time for all the other offerings to get on there.

The SDK just opened up to all third parties today as well https://developer.amazon.com/public/community/post/Tx1K5ORNN...



The SDK is a big deal. According to the page, existing Android code should just work. Some tweaking may be necessary to properly support the controller(s) and fitting to a 1080p screen.

I'm looking forward to XBMC or other local streaming software coming to the platform. If that happens, this will literally be the ultimate set top box for me.


It looks like Plex is available at launch, so my local media library should be playable (with transcoding) on day one.


Yup. It's basically just a Jelly Bean 4.2 (API 17) fork. Should be able to run anything JB can.


So Amazon's fork gets to Jelly Bean before official Google TV (still on Honeycomb) does? Ouch.


How do you know Amazon is forking Jelly Bean?


https://developer.amazon.com/sdk/asb/overview-apps-games.htm...

The Amazon Fire TV runs Fire OS 3.0, based on Android Jelly Bean (API level 17).


You can also get more specs on it here http://bit.ly/1pLH83y





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