Amazon won’t release Fire Sticks that support sideloading anymore
The writing was on the wall, and now it's on Amazon’s website. Newly released Fire Sticks will not support the sideloading of Android apps or any other software from outside Amazon’s official app store. The proof comes from an update to Amazon’s website for developers , which currently reads: Starting with Fire TV Stick 4K Select [which came out in October], all future Fire TV Sticks will run on Vega. According to the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine , the website has included that statement since at least January. But Amazon hasn’t made this declaration so outrightly to consumers, many of whom are just now learning about Amazon’s commitment to its new, proprietary operating system (OS), Vega OS. Amazon declined to comment to Lowpass this week after “multiple sources with knowledge of” Amazon’s plans reportedly told the publication that all future Fire TV sticks would launch with Vega. Read full article Comments
The writing was on the wall, and now it's on Amazon’s website. Newly released Fire Sticks will not support the sideloading of Android apps or any other software from outside Amazon’s official app store.
The proof comes from an update to Amazon’s website for developers , which currently reads:
The two newest Fire Sticks block apps from outside of Amazon’s store.
Vega doesn’t support the sideloading of non-Amazon Appstore apps. One of Amazon’s prerequisites for an app to run on a Vega-powered Fire device is that it “is already published in the Amazon Appstore,” per Amazon .
