A few years ago, buying an Android TV felt like a no-brainer. Or if you didn't want to invest in a new TV, you could get an Android TV-powered box to turn your old television into a smart one. Around ...

With the news that Amazon is swapping the Android OS out on its Fire TVs for a proprietary Linux version called Vega, you'd be forgiven for thinking that smart TVs are abandoning the platform en masse ...