10 Facts About Cyanogen Inc

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The custom portions of CyanogenMod are primarily written by Cyanogen but include contributions from the xda-developers community and code from established open-source projects .

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Cyanogen Inc was an American venture-funded company with offices in Seattle, Washington and Palo Alto, California, announced officially in September 2013, which aimed to commercialize CyanogenMod.

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Rumors of plans to commercialize CyanogenMod, as well as the subsequent announcement of Cyanogen Inc, led to a certain level of discord within the CyanogenMod community.

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In January 2016, Cyanogen Inc rolled out an update that started presenting Microsoft applications when a user attempts to open certain file types on Cyanogen Inc OS phones.

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Subsequently, Cyanogen Inc's CEO boasted of their intention to displace Google in controlling the Android operating system.

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Cyanogen Inc asked the community to consider forking and rebranding the source code, possibly with some form of crowdfunding based on the project's underlying popularity.

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On 23 December 2016, Cyanogen Inc announced that it was shutting down the infrastructure behind CyanogenMod.

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On 28 September 2009, Cyanogen Inc warned that while issues no longer remain with Google, there were still potential licensing problems regarding proprietary, closed-source device drivers.

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Cyanogen Inc added that she was receiving assistance from Google employees.

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Cyanogen Inc OS is often distributed with additional bundled proprietary apps such as the Google Play ecosystem, and a suite of software unique to Cyanogen Inc OS known as C-Apps.

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