Will Cyanogen, the newly minted commercial company behind the alternative CyanogenMod Android firmware, actually help fragment Android? Hmmm… Here’s the one word answer: “No.”
Here’s the longer explanation.
As Cyanogen co-founders Steve Kondik and Koushik Dutta explained on a Reddit Ask-Me -Anything online interview, they have no intentions of forking Android. CyanogenMod is based on the Android Open Source Project and that’s not changing. As Dutta said, “We love Google services, and so do our users. Despite sensationalist headlines from earlier today, we feel we are an ally to Google, not a competitor.”
Indeed, CyanogenMod users can currently use Google services, Google apps, and the Google’s Play Store. If anything with new Cyanogen board member Tom Moss, Google’s ex-head of Business Development, Cyanogen may be able to integrate CyanogenMod more closely with Google’s services.
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