Amazon has launched a new Fire TV Stick HD. It’s moving to a new operating system called Vega OS instead of the long running Fire OS based on Android. Unfortunately, that means it will restrict sideloading.
Some users are already being warned that they won’t be able to install apps from outside the Amazon Appstore. It’s something you were able to do on Fire TV devices, even though it wasn’t exactly legal. Here’s what change means to you.
Future Amazon streaming sticks will block sideloading
Older Fire TV devices have been Android-based since the first Fire TV Stick launched in 2014. Although they used a heavily modified version of Android, users have always been able to install apps from outside the Amazon Appstore. That is, if they enabled it unofficially.
Now that Amazon is moving new devices to Vega OS, its proprietary system, you’ll lose the flexibility that comes with
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