During the Global Mobile Internet Conference in Beijing, Cyanogen’s CEO Kirt McMaster revealed the company is looking to partner with some new Chinese smartphone vendors to carry their CyanogenMod operating system in the future. McMaster did not name names, but he did indicate the vendors they are courting have plans to participate in the international market and not just China. By finding new vendors to install their operating system, Cyanogen hopes to expand the installed basis for their version of Android beyond the current 50 million users they claim.
The move to connect with new smartphone manufacturers comes as the Cyanogen and OnePlus partnership comes to a close according to Cyanogen chief technology officer Steve Kondik. After some rifts developed between the two young companies, OnePlus began development of their own custom Android build to use on their devices. That new ROM was released last month. While OnePlus co-found Carl Pei noted that the partnership has been “mutually beneficial,” McMaster indicated that OnePlus shipments constituted “reasonable volume, but nothing compared to what some of these other partners can ship.” McMaster also claimed OnePlus essentially rode on the back of Cyanogen and would not have been nearly as successful without the partnership.
Cyanogen also managed to entice Microsoft to come on board as a partner recently and the move to help some bigger companies than OnePlus is a benefit for the new partnership. McMaster thinks OnePlus will be able to help these Chinese handset makers break out of China onto the international scene thanks to the visibility of CyanogenMod and Microsoft.
source: PCWorld
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