The team at CyanogenMod announced today that they have formed a new company, Cyanogen Inc., to keep the mobile platform moving forward. The formation of the new company actually took place earlier this year in April, after several months of pitching the idea to potential investors. Part of the impetus for this move was to remove the barriers and challenges present in trying to scale the kind of growth the CyanogenMod community was experiencing.
Steve Kondik, the CTO for the new company, says the goals are “straighforward”:
* Organize, lead, and support our community
* Create amazing user experience centered around how YOU work
* Security solutions that really work
* Stay committed to building the features our users need
* No junk
* Constant updates
* Available on everything, to everyone
Cyanogen indicates that they still recognize their biggest asset is the community and they intend to continue to support the community. The change in structure will help put the next steps for CM within reach. That includes becoming a player in the market on the level of Google and Android by offering a mobile platform that avoids the problem of closed platforms like iOS for Apple and some of the issues that Google's Android is subject to, like bloatware.
What do you think of this move by the CyanogenMod team? Do you think they will succeed in gaining a significant portion of the mobile operating system market?
source: Cyanogen Inc.
I am not sure how they plan to make money. I mean do they do anything other than mod android and make newer os available for legacy devices? They can’t make money from the os, so I have to assume advertising is their strategy. Either way, I am glad they do what they do.
i agree, if CM works only with Mod, they might try to open new doors for diverse OS’s such as iOS, BB, and Windows, plus others if possible… if this things possible for CM, it might possible, possible, right! :)