Cyanogen Lays-off Employees and May Pivot
Cyanogen is struggling to stay afloat. The company who was having a hard time selling its custom version of Android to smartphone makers has made a significant cut in terms of employees.
In the past Cyanogen has been able to successfully raise a substantial amount of money, $80 million to be precise, with backing from Twitter, Telefonica and Rupert Murdoch. Cyanogen’s unique value proposition was that it has created a version of Android that was stripped off of Google’s services. Its highest profile products include a phone from India’s Micromax and the original Oneplus One.
The company has reportedly hired a new Chief Operating Officer, Lior Tal who is an ex Facebook employee and is working on a new strategy. However, Dave Herman has departed the company.
McMaster had pitched Cyanogen as a way for phone makers to get the benefits of Android without having to build it solely around the services of one company. But even with some support from Microsoft, Cyanogen had a tough time getting enough rival services lined up to make that pitch compelling.
Lior Tal has even spoken about Cyanogen pivoting to apps. For now, the future of CyanogenMod is uncertain but highly likely to shut down since a major part of its employees working in the open-source section has been fired.
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Via: |Android Authority|
Source: |Cyanogen|
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