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Microsoft’s Cortana Gets Baked into Cyanogen’s Forked Version of Android

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Re: Microsoft’s Cortana Gets Baked into Cyanogen’s Forked Version of Android

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Post by x1798DE »

RyanZAG wrote: post #3

Hang on, wasn't the whole point of Cyanogen about removing bloatware in standard Android distributions and adding more privacy measures? How can adding a large app that sends data to Microsoft help with bloatware or security..? I've used Cyanogen a little before on certain Android devices that had tons of built in bloat and themes to slim it down a bit. I definitely wouldn't want to swap one type of bloat for another…

I'm not 100% sure, but I think cyanogen is different from cyanogenmod. One is the rooted power user rom, the other is some more standard style rom without root.

Re: Microsoft’s Cortana Gets Baked into Cyanogen’s Forked Version of Android

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Post by Namidairo »

xlayn wrote: post #9

Cyanogen user on n4 for a long time because I don't want g' bits and bytes on my cellphone I find this unsettling. I see the following points on it (I would refrain from calling them plus or cons). -The reason I did the change is avoid G using MY device as their personal Wifi scanning station, the switch meant battery 2-3x more, I hope Microsoft doesn't mess with Android that way. -If they roll it for all devices I h…

Last time I checked you could turn off the wifi scanning, easily.

As for the "deep integration", I believe that just means they configured the screen-off hotword (which uses the Qualcomm hexagon adsp).

Re: Microsoft’s Cortana Gets Baked into Cyanogen’s Forked Version of Android

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Post by JustSomeNobody »

jeremy7600 wrote: post #6
jeremy7600 wrote: post #4

Uhm, why does techcrunch not mention that Cortana's deep integration in Android sounds a lot like Google Now's deep integration into Android? And I agree with others, how can adding a large app that sends data to MS help with bloat or security?

I had a good laugh reading the article about how Cyanogen is trying to steal Android from Google, as well. Too funny!

How can anyone steal an open source OS?

Re: Microsoft’s Cortana Gets Baked into Cyanogen’s Forked Version of Android

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Post by dyladan »

JustSomeNobody wrote: post #15
jeremy7600 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had a good laugh reading the article about how Cyanogen is trying to steal Android from Google, as well. Too funny!

How can anyone steal an open source OS?

It's not really "stealing" but you could theoretically fork it and gain enough market share on your fork that your version becomes what people think of when you say Android.

Re: Microsoft’s Cortana Gets Baked into Cyanogen’s Forked Version of Android

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Post by eckza »

herbst wrote: post #14
dreen wrote: post #5

What is currently an alternative to Cyanogen, that would be relatively easy to install and provide a fairly minimal but comfortable environment?

AOKP, if that is what you want AOKP was always the actually right choice.

And what phone can I put it on without irreversibly voiding my warranty?

I tried Android a few years ago on an LG G2. Rooting to install CyanogenMod was an EXTREMELY STRESSFUL EXPERIENCE; and flashing back to stock to return the fucking thing every time it broke (every other month) was even more stressful.

I'm on an iPhone now because it works well and doesn't shit out every 5 minutes like my G2 did, but I'm becoming increasingly aware of the myriad ways that my personal privacy is being violated by the apps and services that I use, and I'm considering jumping ship again.

But I can't handle the constant stress of hardware breaking and having to frantically scramble around, downloading random zips off of weird mirrors from the XDA forums and wiping my phone back to stock so I can return it and go through the same thing again, a week later.

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Post by JustSomeNobody »

dyladan wrote: post #17
JustSomeNobody wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How can anyone steal an open source OS?

It's not really "stealing" but you could theoretically fork it and gain enough market share on your fork that your version becomes what people think of when you say Android.

But, Google open sourced it so they're cool with that. I still don't see the issue here.

Re: Microsoft’s Cortana Gets Baked into Cyanogen’s Forked Version of Android

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Post by herbst »

eckza wrote: post #18
herbst wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AOKP, if that is what you want AOKP was always the actually right choice.

And what phone can I put it on without irreversibly voiding my warranty? I tried Android a few years ago on an LG G2. Rooting to install CyanogenMod was an EXTREMELY STRESSFUL EXPERIENCE; and flashing back to stock to return the fucking thing every time it broke (every other month) was even more stressful. I'm on an iPhone now because it works well and doesn't shit out every 5 minutes like my G2 did, but I'm becoming…

I see your issue, its the choice of phone actually. Also if a lot of people don't want to hear that, but if you plan to actually use your phone there are not that many android devices to actually choose from.

I have a G3 currently and it also sucks, before that i always had Nexus phones and with them everything worked perfectly without any issues all the time. Non locked, easy to root, many tutorials and many helping tools.

You need to make sure the manifacturer has a open bootloader. I think only Sony does this most of the time, LG promised to but failed it with the G3, not sure about the G4.

No idea about the warranty tho, in my country i can do whatever i want (terms of software) with the hardware i bought, they cant take my warranty for software changes. But again nexus does not care for example.

Also don't use any crazy roms. Use common ones like Cyanogen or AOKP, no forks from one man teams or shit like that. AOKP is more stable and smooth than Vanilla Android in my experience.

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