- Amazon will reportedly release a Vega OS-powered TV streaming device in 2025.
- The company wants to transition away from Android for its TV tech.
- It’s said Amazon has been trying to convince major publishers to bring their apps to its new platform.
While many brands use Android as the operating system for their TV hardware, Amazon wants to split away and use its own OS. This means leaving Fire OS, a forked version of Android, behind and embracing the new OS it’s been developing, internally known as Vega. We could see the company’s first TV product with Vega on board soon.
According to Janko Roettgers of Lowpass, sources familiar with the company’s plans have told him that Amazon is planning to release a TV streaming device that uses Vega as the OS. This device will reportedly launch later this year, and the company has been working on convincing major publishers to bring their apps to the new platform. Roettgers mentions that Amazon previously had plans to launch a Vega-powered streaming stick in 2024, but those plans were delayed.