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      Le Fire TV Stick 4K de Amazon moins cher qu’au Black Friday (-44%)

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Wednesday, 20 March - 15:43

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    Particulièrement pratique, le Fire Stick TV 4K de Amazon est à un prix inédit pour les ventes flash de printemps !
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      Amazon bricks long-standing Fire TV apps with latest update

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Tuesday, 27 February - 18:54 · 1 minute

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    Amazon has issued an update to Fire TV streaming devices and televisions that has broken apps that let users bypass the Fire OS home screen. The tech giant claims that its latest Fire OS update is about security but has refused to detail any potential security concerns.

    Users and app developers have reported that numerous apps that used to work with Fire TV devices for years have suddenly stopped working. As first reported by AFTVnews , the update has made apps unable to establish local Android Debug Bridge (ADB) connections and, therefore, execute ADB commands with Fire TV devices. The update, Fire OS 7.6.6.9, affects several Fire OS-based TVs, including models from TCL, Toshiba, Hisense, and Amazon’s own Fire TV Omni QLED Series . Other devices running the update include Amazon’s first Fire TV Stick 4K Max, the 3rd-gen Fire TV Stick, as well as the 3rd and 2nd-generation Fire TV Cubes and the Fire TV Stick Lite.

    A code excerpt shared with AFTVnews by what the publication described as an “affected app developer," which you can view here , shows a line of code indicating that Fire TVs would not be allowed to make ADB connections with a local device or app. As pointed out by AFTVnews, such apps have been used by Fire TV modders for abilities like clearing installed apps’ cache and using a different home screen than the Fire OS default. Other uses include advanced tweaks, like console emulators, as How-To Geek noted.

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      Amazon’s $195 thin clients are repurposed Fire TV Cubes

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Monday, 27 November - 19:32

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    Amazon has turned its Fire TV Cube streaming device into a thin client optimized for Amazon Web Services (AWS).

    Amazon's Workspaces Thin Client also supports Amazon's Workspaces Web, for accessing virtual desktops from a browser, and AppStream .

    The computer is a Fire TV Cube with a new software stack. All the hardware—from the 2GB of LPDDR4x RAM and 16GB of storage, to the Arm processor with 8 cores, including four running at up to 2.2 GHz—remain identical whether buying the device as an Alexa-powered entertainment-streaming device or thin client computer. Both the Fire TV Cube and Workspaces Thin Client run an Android Open Source Project-based Android fork ( for now ).

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      Amazon Fire Tablets and other gear will reportedly switch away from Android

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Friday, 10 November - 18:13 · 1 minute

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    Amazon has been working on an in-house replacement for its Android-based Fire OS, codenamed "Vega" and built for easier app development, according to reporting from Janko Roettgers at Lowpass .

    Based on job listings , multiple sources, forum posts, and unguarded LinkedIn boasts, Roettgers writes that Amazon has been working on Vega since at least 2019, is mostly done with the core development, and is now focused on an SDK and developer outreach. Vega would replace the Fire OS that is installed on Fire TV sticks and televisions, Kindle Fire tablets, and other Amazon devices. Vega, based on "a flavor of Linux," uses the popular JavaScript-based React Native as an application framework. This could simplify development for Fire devices alongside other React-ready platforms, including smartphones, desktops, and other smart TVs.

    Fire OS is a fork of Android based on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), but it's far from the same thing. The Fire Max 11 , a 2023 device, is running Fire OS 8, which is based on Android 11, released in 2020 . As Roettgers points out, Fire TVs sold in 2023 are based on Android 9, from 2018 . While an Android base provides a relatively familiar entry for developers that already have Android apps, rebuilding the AOSP project—meant to support a wealth of different devices and carrying years of technical debt—seemingly became frustrating enough for Amazon to push toward an in-house solution.

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      After luring customers with low prices, Amazon stuffs Fire TVs with ads

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Wednesday, 8 November - 17:46

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    People who buy a Fire TV from Amazon are probably looking for a cheap and simple way to get an affordable 4K smart TV. When Amazon announced its first self-branded TVs in September 2021, it touted them as being a "great value." But owners of the devices will soon be paying for some of those savings in the form of more prominently displayed advertisements.

    Charlotte Maines, Amazon's director of Fire TV advertising, monetization, and engagement, detailed the new types of ads that Amazon is selling on Fire TVs. In a StreamTV Insider report from November 1, Amazon said the new ads will allow advertisers to reach an average of 155 million unique monthly viewers.

    Some of the changes targeting advertisers, like connecting display placement ads with specific in-stream video ads, seem harmless enough. Others could jeopardize the TV-watching experience for owners.

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      TF1 va distribuer ses contenus en streaming sur Fire TV

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Sunday, 14 May, 2023 - 16:00

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    La plus grande plateforme française de contenus vidéos a trouvé un nouveau canal de diffusion : TF1 a en effet annoncé un partenariat avec Amazon pour diffuser ses contenus sur les produits Fire TV du géant américain.

    TF1 va distribuer ses contenus en streaming sur Fire TV

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      Amazon hamstrings free app that makes Fire TV remotes reprogrammable

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Monday, 20 February, 2023 - 19:32 · 1 minute

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    Enlarge / The Fire TV Stick 4K Max. You're pretty much stuck with those streaming-service buttons on the bottom of the remote. (credit: Amazon)

    Amazon doesn't want you messing with the Fire TV remote's buttons. After all, those buttons connecting users to streaming services like Netflix and Hulu are a source of ad revenue for Amazon. The company recently issued a software update to the Fire TV Stick 4K Max that blocks the functionality of Remapper, a free app that lets users reprogram the remote's third-party app-launcher buttons.

    Buttons dedicated to a specific TV-streaming service, like Disney+ or Peacock, have been a way for streaming services to attempt to drive subscriptions and viewership since 2011 when Netflix started doing it . Companies like Amazon and Roku receive money for placing a button for a streaming service on their remotes. Amazon hasn't disclosed how much money it makes from this function, but in 2019, Bloomberg reported that Roku charges streaming companies $1 for every remote sold with one of the service's buttons.

    With that in mind, Amazon's apparent resistance to Remapper isn't surprising. But for users who don't have a Netflix subscription, for example, they may want to reprogram a Fire TV remote's dedicated Netflix button to launch a service they have a subscription to.

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      L’Echo Show 15 est maintenant un téléviseur connecté Fire TV

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Monday, 19 December, 2022 - 08:00

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    Amazon a amélioré sa gamme Echo au printemps, avec l'Echo Show 15 : basiquement, c'est un grand écran de 15,6 pouces qui s'installe au mur et qui affiche toutes sortes d'informations. Le distributeur/constructeur vient d'ajouter une nouvelle fonction très pratique : la télé !

    L’Echo Show 15 est maintenant un téléviseur connecté Fire TV