Conversations with the director of Microsoft’s is only the first stage of the revolution, which wants to make Cyanogen with their “alternative” Android. The company openly declares war on Google to, though her motives are not entirely clear.
Not long ago, the we informed you about Cyanogena funding by Microsoft . We speculate on the motives of the agreement of both parties, but without more data, our speculation based solely on logic and instinct, but not on facts. Now we know the wider context of the meeting of heads of both companies, and we know that those actions were not intended to strengthen Microsoft’s position, at least not directly. It is a matter of kicking Google’s between my legs, what Microsoft, and not only he, can potentially benefit.
Cyanogen uses a greatest advantage and disadvantage at the same time Android: its total openness. Although it belongs to Google’s Android is he managed, developed and funded, each may at any time take you so Android, convert to his own fashion and use for their own purposes. Cyanogen, as before, Amazon and Nokia, attempts are made to create a well-equipped, comfortable and modern version of Android, Google’s free of any services. What is different from the above-mentioned Cyanogena sample predecessors? The company does not manufacture the equipment. At least for now.
Android is a fully open system on which hard to master
Anyone can view the source code and even modify it, re-compile and publish an original, its own version . That is the beauty of open-source software. Let’s say that you are a talented programmer and just come up with a revolutionary new approach to surround sound. You do not know the other mechanisms of the operating system and if you do not want to know. Never mind, you can just throw their bit to ready-made solutions in this system created by other developers. As a result, use for everyone.
With this software development model draws its strength Android and other open-source systems. There is one small problem: open-source project can be “sforkować”, as reported above. This is why Google provides system AOSP, so “naked” Android, not closed, proprietary solutions. Perhaps because he wants to, but mainly because it has to.
It has used a number of companies, including Amazon Fire OS creating a system or to a successor smartphones Nokia Asha. This is also Cyanogen lives, providing he revamped version of Android as an alternative proposal for smartphones on the market, often abandoned by their manufacturers when it comes to software updates.
In Cyanogena Microsoft invests only
The giant from Redmond is, despite the multi-million dollar grant, a minority shareholder. Cyanogena authorities to successfully acquire interest in new investors, from Amazon at the helm. How to explain, they want their version of Android could further develop freely, ignoring the guidelines of Google and polished at the same time offering a set of applications and services.
Why do not you do it together with the “official” Android developers? Google, in return for access to its facilities, the modified system requires compliance with certain rules of design, the display of the services giant headed. Cyanogen not want to have this relationship.
The words Cyanogenu boss, Mr. Kirt McMaster, however, are more puzzling . This explicitly stated that his goal is to receive Android Google to and loss of control of the system by a single entity. Sounds almost like a crusade, whose true motives are, in my opinion, unknown to us.
Do not speculate, however, because again we know about it too much. But we do know one thing: Cyanogen Android will not offer pre-installed Gmail, Play Store, Google Maps and others. This does not mean that it will be “stark naked”. Instead, Gmail will stay there, perhaps, Outlook. Instead Play Books and Play Store, Amazon Kindle and the Appstore. Google Drive and Hangouts may be swapped for Dropbox, OneDrive’a, WhatsApp or Skype.
It is doubtful, however, that maneuver Cyanogena have any impact on the market. The system is pre-installed in a few exotic smartphones, and most mainstream phone is not going to play in the flash ROM and probably will not even able to do that. Unless Cyanogen Android któremuś will be an important producer of mobile mature enough proposition that the adoption of any such distributions decides to check the proposals by the market. This LG G4 Cyan could quite a lot of mess …
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