CyanogenMod installer will appear in Google Play, developers have received $ 7 million investment

Cyanogen, the developer of the popular mod based on Android, has announced great news . First, it received $ 7 million in investment for development, which made it possible to increase the staff to 17 people and seriously speed up development.

Secondly, the company announces giant plans to increase the audience of CyanogenMod to 50 million people and become the third mobile platform after Android and iOS.

CyanogenMod is an improved version of Android, with many new features and advanced applications, a more secure messenger and an improved program for photo and video. The value of the mod is also in the fact that it allows you to install the latest versions of Android on old devices that are forgotten and abandoned by manufacturers. CyanogenMod is, literally, an Android with a human face.
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The problem is that the installation procedure CyanogenMod is very complicated. For example, one of the installation manuals contains 23 steps , while users are warned that during the firmware they can damage the phone and lose the warranty on it.

Despite all the problems, more than 8 million people still managed to install a system for themselves, according to Kirt McMaster, the company's executive director. And this is the official statistics of Cyanogen only those who have selected the option in the settings to send statistics to the server. According to McMaster, the real audience can be two to three times more.

However, in order to overtake Blackberry and Windows Phone by the number of users, CyanogenMod must drastically simplify the installation procedure. After a few years of effort, the developers still managed to do it - and after a couple of weeks, the CyanogenMod installer will appear in the Google Play directory, which will allow installing the system in two clicks.





What prospects it opens up for the business is not worth mentioning. Although CyanogenMod will remain free, but with an audience of 50 million people, the company will definitely find a way to monetize. Kirt McMaster says that they already have a lot of ideas on this.

The company stated the following objectives regarding future development:

• Organize, lead and support the community
• Provide the most convenient interface with adjustment to the needs of a specific user.
• Effective security systems: making CyanogenMod the safest operating system for mobile devices.
• Continue to implement the functions demanded by the community.
• No rubbish.
• Constant updates.
• Accessibility on any device for everyone.

Well, it remains only to wish the guys success.

Cyanogen employees