That’s not to say that when the clock strikes 12:01 on Jan. So it’s fair to ask whether Amazon is planning the obsolescence of what otherwise may be a perfectly functional television come 2026. And the products themselves aren’t as repairable as they used to be. We just don’t repair things as much as we used to. We hung onto those things until they quit working and weren’t able to be repaired.īut 2021 is a different year than 1981. Those of us of a certain age grew up in an era in which you didn’t just buy a new TV every few years and kick the old one to the curb. The flip side of the coin is this: It’s entirely possible - likely, even, if not absolutely expected - that the Amazon Fire TV Omni series is going to last more than four years.
That maybe depends a little bit on the direction the hardware takes - hardware always dictates the future of software - as well as Amazon’s big-picture plans for software updates in general.īut the fact is four years of updates is relatively acceptable in the land of electronics in 2021. It’s also entirely possible that this is one of those “underpromise, overdeliver” moments in which we’ll see Amazon declare extended support for devices on down the road. But four years is better than less than four years, for sure. It’s not great - the latest Pixel phones released by Google, which are running Android 12 out of the box versus Android 10 on which Fire TV OS is based, will receive security updates through at least 2025, and major version updates through at least 2024. And Amazon Fire TV is built on Amazon’s own forked (and heavily customized) version of the Android source code.Īll things being equal, “at least” four years of software security updates isn’t awful. The latter typically has been actively supported longer than the former. That’s been a classic complaint in the Android-versus-iPhone debate. When it comes to software updates, more is always better. It’s a television, and not as easily replaced. 2 (2019), Fire TV Stick 4K (2018), and the new Fire TV Stick 4K Max.īut the Omni is different. Other Amazon devices on that timeline include the Fire TV Stick Lite (2020), Fire TV Stick Gen.
Fire TV devices as old as the second-generation Fire TV Stick Basic Edition - released in 2016 - also are guaranteed to get security updates at least that long. Fitbit Versa 3Īnd the Omni isn’t special in this fact.
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