Thank You and Goodbye, the CyanogenMod Team
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Thank You and Goodbye, the CyanogenMod Team
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Re: Thank You and Goodbye, the CyanogenMod Team
#2I have read this and another post from CM team. I somehow missed what the main catalyst was for shutting down. Is there a succinct explanation? What happened?
Re: Thank You and Goodbye, the CyanogenMod Team
#3I have read this and another post from CM team. I somehow missed what the main catalyst was for shutting down. Is there a succinct explanation? What happened?
I, too, am kinda left wondering 'what happened?'
Re: Thank You and Goodbye, the CyanogenMod Team
#4I have read this and another post from CM team. I somehow missed what the main catalyst was for shutting down. Is there a succinct explanation? What happened?
Hard to make money selling a free OS to replace an OS the customer doesn't pay for already?
Re: Thank You and Goodbye, the CyanogenMod Team
#5I have read this and another post from CM team. I somehow missed what the main catalyst was for shutting down. Is there a succinct explanation? What happened?
Not really. Here's what's publicly known:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyanogenMod#Restructure_and_ce...
Honestly it looks to me that they just ran out of runway and dissolved into an internal power struggle, then someone representing the investor side of things came in to shut it all down and recover what could be salvaged.
Re: Thank You and Goodbye, the CyanogenMod Team
#6I have read this and another post from CM team. I somehow missed what the main catalyst was for shutting down. Is there a succinct explanation? What happened?
https://github.com/lineageos and http://lineageos.org/
Only a fork!
Re: Thank You and Goodbye, the CyanogenMod Team
#7I have read this and another post from CM team. I somehow missed what the main catalyst was for shutting down. Is there a succinct explanation? What happened?
Hard to make money selling a free OS to replace an OS the customer doesn't pay for already?
Android is "free" to the consumer, but the payment is that if you want all of the Google apps (which are no longer part of the open source stuff) and the consumer uses the Google apps (likely), all of the search revenue goes to Google.
Re: Thank You and Goodbye, the CyanogenMod Team
#8I have read this and another post from CM team. I somehow missed what the main catalyst was for shutting down. Is there a succinct explanation? What happened?
I, too, am kinda left wondering 'what happened?'
As far as I know, the straw that broke the camel's back was CM inc breaking a device exclusivity contract which as one can imagine hurt revenue and anger investors. That coupled with some aggressive PR in years past lead to this.
Re: Thank You and Goodbye, the CyanogenMod Team
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hard to make money selling a free OS to replace an OS the customer doesn't pay for already?
Android is "free" to the consumer, but the payment is that if you want all of the Google apps (which are no longer part of the open source stuff) and the consumer uses the Google apps (likely), all of the search revenue goes to Google.
The numerous China Android based OS's, that are void of Google services, would disagree.
Re: Thank You and Goodbye, the CyanogenMod Team
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Android is "free" to the consumer, but the payment is that if you want all of the Google apps (which are no longer part of the open source stuff) and the consumer uses the Google apps (likely), all of the search revenue goes to Google.
The numerous China Android based OS's, that are void of Google services, would disagree.
Excuse me, disagree how? They don't use the special google apps, and search revenue doesn't go to google. That's consistent with what I said. Sorry that it wasn't clear.