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Now, the latest: the custom services that Cyanogen provides to phones that run its OS will be shut down on December 31st and the “nightly builds” of said OS will no longer be produced.
It hopefully won’t mean anything critical will break for people who have purchased Cyanogen OS-based phones — but we’ll need to see what these devices act like on January 1st to know for sure. Either way, if this is you, now’s a good time to either learn how to switch over to a CyanogenMod ROM or — let’s be honest — start looking for a new phone.
Theoretically, the new CEO has a plan to modularize the technologies that Cyanogen has developed so they can be applied to any Android phone. But I wouldn’t hold my breath on those given how unstable the company has been over the past year and given how little notice it has provided its OS customers for this shutdown.
Update, 3PM ET: The team behind CynanogenMod has declared the existing brand dead, and announced plans to fork the source code of the mobile OS. The team promises that the new path “will return to the grassroots community effort that used to define CM while maintaining the professional quality and reliability you have come to expect more recently.”
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