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BEWARE: The new fire stick select now uses Amazon's homegrown Vega OS which doesn't support sideloading.
How does it provide "free live TV" and what is the source of live tv? Do you get your traditional OTA channels free?
You can't get typical broadcast. OTA channels for free over the Internet. (ABC CBS NBC) The one option that was out there got sued out of existence. Antenna, or pay for one of the subscriptions is the only easy/legal way.
Replaced most of my sticks, after a while they all slow down to shit with all that Amazon shopware they throw at it, Garbage. Get an Android box and you are better off.
Still Linux kernel. Still GPL. Source is available. Side loading is not any more difficult than on previous models (I mean from a security standpoint). But the apps do need to run on Vega O/S. If that takes off, great - you're fine. If not, why bother?
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I got the max for $20 last year. Give it away two month later. The screen is just full of ads. Everywhere you go there were pointless ads. Sometimes I would get ads for the thing I am watching. Then it kept resetting my preferences etc. never buying the dumpster fire sticks again.
I will never understand the fanboys who downvoted your comment.
Fire TV can be useful if you have no alternative. But its user interface and user experience are absolute garbage, and will be even worse with the new OS, which allows no sideloading (for those who would use alternative launchers).
I moved to Apple TV and never looked back.
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Fire TV can be useful if you have no alternative. But its user interface and user experience are absolute garbage, and will be even worse with the new OS, which allows no sideloading (for those who would use alternative launchers).
I moved to Apple TV and never looked back.
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