A new report claims that Amazon is working on a new operating system designed to be used for future versions of its Fire TV and Echo Show devices. The report comes from low pass A newsletter that used to be the first to report on Telly’s “free” smart TV.

In its latest report, it notes that Amazon’s new operating system has the internal code name Vega. In the past, Fire TV devices used the Android open source project as the basis for creating its Fire TV OS. The current version of Amazon’s operating system is based on Android 9, well behind Google’s current Android 14.

The newsletter noted that the new Linux-based Vega operating system does not have much of the code in Android that is not needed for smart home devices. It added:

App developers are told to use React Native as an app framework, which allows them to build native apps with interfaces powered by Javascript. React Native also allows developers to build apps across a much wider range of devices and operating systems, including iOS and Android hardware as well as a variety of smart TVs. This will likely allow them to build the same apps for newer devices powered by Vega and legacy Fire TV hardware that still runs Android.

One of the report’s sources claims that most of the development of the new OS is “already done” and Amazon is now trying to convince app developers to actually use it. Some Fire TV devices could ship with the new OS sometime in 2024, according to the report.

He also says Amazon plans to eventually use the Vega operating system for all of its devices, including the in-car operating system, and unnamed future tech projects. The new operating system could also serve as a way for Amazon to display paid ads and services