The creators of the popular custom rom for Android CyanogenMod have their software in a separate company to be found. The company Cyanogen has a number of people full time in the service, including CyanogenMod pioneer Steve Kondik.
The people behind CyanogenMod have made the establishment of the company known through the own blog, but let it also be know that the company already since april. It is unclear why this is so for a long time the pet is kept. The company, called Cyanogen Inc. and is led by Kirk McMaster. CyanogenMod founder Steve Kondik has served as cto, while the well-known Android developer Koushik Dutta vice president of engineering is made.
At the moment Cyanogen is primarily concerned with the development of the popular custom rom for many Android smartphones is developing. One of the first updates on the planning state is a installer that install the custom rom easier. In this way, will the new company probably users who have little technical knowledge. The installer should be in the coming weeks to appear and can be done from the Play Store to be downloaded.
Cyanogen has set itself the goal in the longer term, in terms of market share the third place on the market for mobile operating systems, behind Android and iOS. There are now about 7 million users CyanogenMod installed. It is unclear whether in the long term, a separate version of Android developed: as yet, CyanogenMod is based on the mobile OS of Google of which there are several tweaks and extra features are built-in.
