CyanogenMod will collect hundreds of millions of dollars to develop an Android version is wholly independent from Google. Including Microsoft and Amazon are interested.
Android is completely open source. This means that anyone Android may copy and use as you wish. Amazon, for example does this with its Kindle tablets. CyanogenMod has reportedly also grand plans to pull Google Android and will therefore collect hundreds of millions of dollars.
According to the latest rumors, Microsoft is investing a whopping $ 70 million CyanogenMod. The team behind the alternative Android version, according to Recode now looking for more investors in order to finance the development of the ‘Android without Google.
CyanogenMod wants Android without Google
Google Android without actually means an Android version without Google services. Think of Google Play, Gmail and specific APIs which notifications are delivered. For now, Google with Android has a thick finger in the pie, and that is important for Google’s power over Android. If they lean too much on the Android Open Source Project, the open source code of Android, others would be easy to get to go with their mobile operating system.
Amazon is an interesting example. It delivers an Android version without a Google service, so the software is very limited. Google Play is replaced by the Amazon app store and many features you know of Android, are not present in Amazon’s version.
CyanogenMod want Google Play, Gmail, Google Maps and all those important APIs for Android good work replaced by his own work, which ultimately can make a software that “more open” and not managed by Google.
For Amazon and Microsoft interesting
For companies such as Microsoft and Amazon, this is an interesting development because they smartphones and tablets can make their own, more open Android version – without help this competitor Google. For example, Microsoft already experimented with the Nokia X, a cheap smartphone with a customized Android version. Later, the Nokia X was again removed from the range of Microsoft.
CyanogenMod could be provided, for example a few years with services that Microsoft and Amazon bundle with the software, like Google Android provides with services like YouTube, Google Maps and Google Play
Earlier, CyanogenMod founder Steve Kondik:. “We’re going to talk about three to five years no longer rely on a Google derivative. At this time Google is the boss, and nobody likes it. “
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