"I'm hearing that some major publishers have been hesitant to throw their support behind Vega for that very reason. However, Amazon has a plan to ensure that the new 4K Select stick will launch with most of the apps customers expect from such hardware when it goes on sale later this month: It will simply run Android versions of popular apps that haven't been ported to Vega yet in the cloud, and stream them to the Select stick."
"Amazon began publishing Vega OS docs for developers Tuesday. Most documents focus on bringing apps to Vega, which is Linux-based and uses React Native as its default app development framework. However, among the cache are also a few pages outlining the company's plan B, which is officially known as the Amazon Cloud App Program. "Amazon cloud app streaming allows the deployment of existing Fire TV apps to customers on Vega OS Fire TV devices," one of those documents states. "If your app runs on a Fire TV Stick 4K Max and meets [certain prerequisites], it can run on a Vega OS Fire TV device using cloud app streaming.""
Amazon unveiled Vega OS with the new Fire TV Stick 4K Select and will ship the device preinstalled with Vega. Multiple new Fire TVs continue to run Amazon's forked version of Android, creating a two-platform environment that has made some publishers hesitant to support Vega. Amazon plans to mitigate app gaps by cloud-streaming Android versions of popular apps to Vega devices until developers port native Vega apps. Amazon published Vega OS developer documentation that notes Vega is Linux-based, uses React Native as the default framework, and includes the Amazon Cloud App Program for cloud app streaming deployment.
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