<story><title>End of support for Firefox on Amazon devices</title><url>https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/end-support-firefox-amazon-devices</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>voxadam</author><text>Fire OS 7 is based on Android 9 with API level 28. So, yeah, it&amp;#x27;s not exactly cutting edge.</text></item><item><author>wpietri</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d love to hear the story behind this. Are Amazon devices drifting too far from Android to be easily supported?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m fine with Firefox dropping niche platforms and focusing resources on actual users. (Most stats don&amp;#x27;t even cover the Amazon devices; the only mention I could find of Silk usage was 0.02% of traffic.) But it surprises me that Amazon&amp;#x27;s devices are now far enough off from regular Android that there&amp;#x27;s a support burden. Anybody here shipping apps for Fire who can explain?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>david_allison</author><text>API 28 is released in 2018, 2 versions behind the latest.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a sad state of software development that we so quickly drop support for older hardware, it contributes massively to e-waste, although Android manufacturers shoulder a lot of the blame for not supporting OS upgrades.&lt;p&gt;Context: Put out a (hopefully) final release for API 16 last month. It&amp;#x27;ll mean that 15,000 people can no longer update the app. From analytics, we still have users on Android 1.5 (API 3)</text></comment>
<story><title>End of support for Firefox on Amazon devices</title><url>https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/end-support-firefox-amazon-devices</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>voxadam</author><text>Fire OS 7 is based on Android 9 with API level 28. So, yeah, it&amp;#x27;s not exactly cutting edge.</text></item><item><author>wpietri</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d love to hear the story behind this. Are Amazon devices drifting too far from Android to be easily supported?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m fine with Firefox dropping niche platforms and focusing resources on actual users. (Most stats don&amp;#x27;t even cover the Amazon devices; the only mention I could find of Silk usage was 0.02% of traffic.) But it surprises me that Amazon&amp;#x27;s devices are now far enough off from regular Android that there&amp;#x27;s a support burden. Anybody here shipping apps for Fire who can explain?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>osmarks</author><text>Two versions behind is actually better than the majority of Android phones in the wild.</text></comment>