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Re:Samsung Phone Users Perturbed to Find They Can't Delete F... by dragonwriter on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @12:32PM (#18866699)
> The Amazon Fire platform which is Android

No, while it is an AOSP-derivative, it is not Android.

Re:Samsung Phone Users Perturbed to Find They Can't Delete F... by dalore on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @02:09PM (#18867749)
You better update Wikipedia with that information then: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_OS

> Amazon Fire OS is an Android-based mobile operating system produced by Amazon ....

The A in AOSP stands for Android. Android Operating System

Guess you're splitting hairs and trying to say Android based isn't the same as saying Android.

I would argue that the AOSP is Android (and that's what Wikipedia confirms here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system) )

You're getting it confused with Google Mobile Services which is the crapware in question.

> Android is also associated with a suite of proprietary software developed by Google, called Google Mobile Services[10] (GMS) that very frequently comes pre-installed in devices, which usually includes the Google Chrome web browser and Google Search and always includes core apps for services such as Gmail, as well as the application store and digital distribution platform Google Play, and associated development platform. These apps are licensed by manufacturers of Android devices certified under standards imposed by Google, but AOSP has been used as the basis of competing Android ecosystems, such as Amazon.com's Fire OS, which use their own equivalents to GMS.

Re:Samsung Phone Users Perturbed to Find They Can't Delete F... by dragonwriter on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @02:52PM (#18868169)
> You better update Wikipedia with that information then

I'm under no obligation to correct every error in Wikipedia.

Wikipedia> Amazon Fire OS is an Android-based mobile operating system

It's actually AOSP-based, more than Android-based (whether the relationship between the two is such that the former is a subset of the latter is...another discussion.) But even Android-based isn't Android (OS X is BSD-based, but not BSD; MariaDB is MySQL based, but not MySQL; the legal systems of much of the US are English Common Law-based, but not English Common Law)

Android devices, Android-compatible (per the ACP) devices, and devices running derivatives of the AOSP source code constitute a sequence in which each item describes a superset of the set described by the preceding item.

Re:Samsung Phone Users Perturbed to Find They Can't Delete F... by tapland on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @04:13PM (#18868948)
It is Android. You go into your settings and enable installation from unknown sources to install the Play store and run android apps just like any other android device.
Re:Samsung Phone Users Perturbed to Find They Can't Delete F... by detaro on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @02:57PM (#18868218)
Android.com shows Amazon Fire devices as examples of the wide freedom Android offers, so apparently Google disagrees with your definition of "Android".