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[Updated] Steve Kondik blames Kirt McMaster for Cyanogen Inc's failure, CyanogenMod to reorganize and regroup

David Ruddock David Ruddock
[Updated] Steve Kondik blames Kirt McMaster for Cyanogen Inc's failure, CyanogenMod to reorganize and regroup

Steve Kondik has left a statement about the rather troubling news coming out of Cyanogen Inc. this week on the [private] official CyanogenMod developer Google+ community, and things aren't looking pretty. While Kondik doesn't say outright that he's leaving "the Inc," it's pretty strongly implied that he wants nothing to do with the company anymore. The problem is that while Kondik wants out and to move on with the CyanogenMod project, there could be significant legal hurdles in fully detangling the open source community project from the for-profit venture.

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Cyanogen Inc. will shutter Seattle office by end of year, more layoffs happening, Kondik could be out

David Ruddock David Ruddock
Cyanogen Inc. will shutter Seattle office by end of year, more layoffs happening, Kondik could be out

According to sources both in and outside the company, Cyanogen Inc. is effectively ceasing to exist as it has for much of its short lifetime as of today, with a renewed round of layoffs and an internal announcement at the company that its Seattle headquarters will close by the end of the year, AKA within around a month. This should not be surprising to anyone at this point.

Our sources also claim that the future of the company's cofounder, Steve Kondik, is up in the air. Kondik was removed from the company's board, allegedly, as part of a managerial shakeup last month that also saw CEO Kirt McMaster cede his position to newcomer Lior Tal.

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[Update: Confirmed] Kirt McMaster out as Cyanogen Inc. CEO, gets Eric Schmidt'ed to "Executive Chairman"

David Ruddock David Ruddock
[Update: Confirmed] Kirt McMaster out as Cyanogen Inc. CEO, gets Eric Schmidt'ed to "Executive Chairman"

Kirt McMaster, the controversial CEO of Cyanogen Inc., will be stepping down from his role, we've learned. An announcement could come as soon as tomorrow as part of a larger news release regarding the company's new structure and direction. McMaster changed his title on LinkedIn recently to reflect the change. It is unclear what role this would actually give McMaster at the company, or who would replace him as CEO.

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Steve Kondik: There won't be "much if any" involvement from Cyanogen Inc. on CyanogenMod 14

David Ruddock David Ruddock
Steve Kondik: There won't be "much if any" involvement from Cyanogen Inc. on CyanogenMod 14

If a comment on a CyanogenMod commit thread by founder Steve Kondik is any indicator, rumors that Cyanogen Inc. is basically getting out of the OS development business seem to be coming to fruition. While the context of the comment is a rather specific commit thread, Kondik's frustration seems to have led to him to say a bit more about Cyanogen Inc.'s future plans than the company may have liked:

There isn't really going to be much if any involvement from the Inc this time around and I'm taking on a lot of stuff on my own to try and keep us moving forward.

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Sources: Cyanogen Inc. is undergoing major layoffs, may "pivot" to apps

David Ruddock David Ruddock
Sources: Cyanogen Inc. is undergoing major layoffs, may "pivot" to apps

We're hearing from multiple sources that Cyanogen Inc. is in the midst of laying off a significant portion of its workforce around the world today. The layoffs most heavily impact the open source arm of the Android ROM-gone-startup, which may be eliminated entirely (not CyanogenMod itself, just the people at Cyanogen Inc. who work on the open source side).

Accounts indicate that employees were called into meetings, sometimes in groups, and told they were being let go.

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It Looks Like Oppo Is Cyanogen's First Hardware Partner - Cyanogen Will Be At The N1 Announcement On September 23rd

It Looks Like Oppo Is Cyanogen's First Hardware Partner - Cyanogen Will Be At The N1 Announcement On September 23rd

Jeremiah Rice Jeremiah Rice

Steve Kondik and company announced earlier this week that the CyanogenMod ROM has been incorporated into Cyanogen Inc, with the aim of strengthening the pseudo-platform and reaching more users. Since the first announcement Cyanogen has been teasing one major hardware partner, and it looks like that has been revealed.

Update: We've confirmed the details of the Oppo arrangement: Here's How Cyanogen Inc Wants The CyanogenMod-Enabled N1 And The First Hardware Partnership With Oppo To Work.

Observe the teaser trailer from Chinese manufacturer Oppo for the upcoming N1 smartphone, below:

https://youtu.be/lV1c8nzDp5s

Mr. Kondik didn't say as much, but the brief video is a pretty clear indication that the upcoming Oppo N1 phone will run the CyanogenMod ROM in some form or fashion.

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Focal Camera App Removed From CyanogenMod As Its Developer Xplodwild Leaves The Team - First Fallout From Incorporating

Focal Camera App Removed From CyanogenMod As Its Developer Xplodwild Leaves The Team - First Fallout From Incorporating

Cody Toombs Cody Toombs

Not long ago CyanogenMod Nemesis Phase 1 was announced, spearheaded by a brand new camera app called Focal. It garnered quite a bit of excitement and demonstrated just how far the open source project had come. Unfortunately, one week shy of its 2 month anniversary, Focal has been officially removed from the ROM and isn't likely to make a return.

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Focal Screenshots

Rumors of friction between the creator of Focal, Guillaume Lesniak (xplodwild), and heads of the organization have been circulating for some time now, but the official announcement of the new company brought the conflict to a head.

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Steve Kondik And Koushik Dutta Shed More Light On The Future Of Cyanogen Inc. And CyanogenMod

Steve Kondik And Koushik Dutta Shed More Light On The Future Of Cyanogen Inc. And CyanogenMod

Jeremiah Rice Jeremiah Rice

Yesterday was kind of a big day for Android. The long-running and extremely popular custom ROM family CyanogenMod has been incorporated into a company which plans to further the software into a bona fide platform. CyanogenMod founder Steve Kondik and extremely vocal CM team member Koushik Dutta (CTO and VP of Engineering for the new Cyanogen Inc, respectively) did what you're supposed to do whenever cool stuff happens: head to Reddit for an "Ask Me Anything" session. Here are some highlights from Kondik and Dutta's responses to the community's questions.

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The elephant in the room is hardware. When will there be new hardware that runs CyanogenMod off the shelf, as a sort of alternative to Sense/TouchWiz/whatever the hell LG is calling it this week?

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One-Click CyanogenMod Installer Coming Soon - Windows First, Mac After, Linux If There Is Demand [Updated]

One-Click CyanogenMod Installer Coming Soon - Windows First, Mac After, Linux If There Is Demand [Updated]

Ryan Whitwam Ryan Whitwam

As part of today's announcement of CyanogenMod as a company, CTO and founder Steve Kondik said one of the first goals the team had was to make the process of installing CyanogenMod easier. Kondik called the current process "hideous" and too difficult for "mere mortals." He also announced that the Android installer companion app will be released to Google Play in the coming weeks.

The Android app is only half of the equation, though – a Windows application will also be released. We reached out to CM team member Abhisek Devkota (AKA ciwrl) for clarification. As of now, he said, both the Windows client and the Android app will be needed for installation, with the Windows side actually doing most of the work.

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Steve Kondik Announces The Development Of Incognito Mode For Apps In CyanogenMod To Promote Privacy

Steve Kondik Announces The Development Of Incognito Mode For Apps In CyanogenMod To Promote Privacy

Ryan Whitwam Ryan Whitwam

A new feature could be coming to CynaogenMod in the near future that strengthens personal privacy with a single checkbox. It's called Run in Incognito Mode, and it's being developed by Cyanogen himself, Steve Kondik. It's a simple feature that could change how comfortable you are with your apps.

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