Sneaking the big news on the long holiday weekend, Cyanogen Inc.
has announced discontinuation of the operating system and all services
by December 31. Per the official statement, CyanogenMod OS and source
code will remain available for the communite
Sneaking the big news on the long holiday weekend, Cyanogen Inc.
has announced discontinuation of the operating system and all services
by December 31. Per the official statement, CyanogenMod OS and source
code will remain available for the community.
The ambitious
startup aimed to build a better version of Android, but the software
received lukewarm response because the OEMs didn’t want to ditch the
Google ecosystem. And then, there were issues with partners like OnePlus
who ditched the alliance immediately after the first outing with
OnePlus One.
The announcement was made in a very uncharacteristic and brief bog post:
As part of the ongoing consolidation of Cyanogen, all services and Cyanogen-supported nightly builds will be discontinued no later than 12/31/16. The open source project and source code will remain available for anyone who wants to build CyanogenMod personally.
While
surprising, the announcement isn’t shocking, really. The company had
recently laid off staff, and we heard the news of the exit of its CEO as
well as another co-founder. The company will now look to pivot towards a
modular operating system that can work with Android, which they’ll hope
will be more attractive to OEMs.
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