Post AbhA7xitSmrsSBWpSy by ondra@social.unextro.net
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(DIR) Post #Abh8FV5Dd78O2LRCEq by benfrancis@mastodon.social
2023-11-11T10:49:59Z
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Huge if true. Amazon working on a "web-first" operating system codenamed Vega to eventually replace Android on all of its devices, starting with FireTV. https://www.lowpass.cc/p/amazon-vega-os-fire-tv-androidFrom accounts it sounds more like JS-first (React Native) than Web-first, but I'd love to know more.
(DIR) Post #Abh9nrwHG7DqisCvL6 by ondra@social.unextro.net
2023-11-11T11:12:52Z
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@benfrancis I always thought that it's the one big tech company without a proprietary system to favor so web-based seemed like a no-brainer.
(DIR) Post #AbhA7wV20qBYeu2FDk by tanepiper@tane.codes
2023-11-11T11:09:59Z
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@benfrancis @ondra So, like WebOS except worse?https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebOS
(DIR) Post #AbhA7xitSmrsSBWpSy by ondra@social.unextro.net
2023-11-11T11:16:29Z
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@tanepiper @benfrancis It could be much better. A lot has changed since webOS' foundations were laid. It's Amazon, however, so I'm sure they'll find a way to enshittify it sooner than later. Hopefully the web as a whole will benefit at least in the meantime.
(DIR) Post #AbhANQihw3XYjJoioq by tanepiper@tane.codes
2023-11-11T11:19:17Z
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@ondra @benfrancis Oh indeed, but also WebOS was VanillaJS and had some nice ideas - but this I fear is more vendor lock-in. If Amazon put ads in their subscription services I have no doubt they'll do it in an OS
(DIR) Post #AbhntL3sPDEKevvOzI by comatory@kompost.cz
2023-11-11T18:33:10Z
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@tanepiper @ondra @benfrancis It still sucked though at least on the devices I’ve used it on you could always tell.
(DIR) Post #AbhntMB0GCWc7KGbjc by ondra@social.unextro.net
2023-11-11T18:42:03Z
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@comatory Ironically, my main gripe with webOS on our LG TV is that it shipped with a browser based on Chromium version 68 and never got updated so the OS is mostly unusable for the actual web. @tanepiper @benfrancis