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15 (Android 1.0 released in 2008), and yeah it's not just the OS, that's fifteen years of app development by hundreds of thousands developers... there's just no way to catch up to that. I can't see many users choosing to switch platforms unless they make it compatible with existing Android apps, and I can't see many developers bothering to make their apps compatible with a third mobile OS unless Amazon pays them to do it.
If they make it the OS for their own devices they can basically force it into the market... but of course if it's terrible then people will stop buying their devices.
That's what I meant. The OS itself is the easiest part, making it popular and gathering 15 years of experience regarding app compatibility, development, etc., in a year or two, that's the hard part.
2 players (iOS and Android) is more than enough (MS lost the war, that is apparent to everyone). Sure diversity is good, but not at all costs. If they make it like you said "hey, you can run Android and iOS apps here, as well as our own apps", sure, I'd say it has a future... a long and hard road ahead, but you can't beat cross app compatibility cuz they'll probably be the 1st on the market to make that work out of the box on their OS. Other than this scenario, I just can't see anything else being a viable option for them 🤷.