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Cyanogen raises another $80 million in its fight against Android

article published on 23 March, 2015

Cyanogen, the mobile operating system startup looking to take down Google has raised another $80 million from venture capitalists. The company says it will use the funds to hire developers and to "accelerate the development" of its open OS platform. "We're committed to creating an open computing platform that fundamentally empowers the entire mobile ecosystem from developers to hardware ... [ read the full article ]

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bbbob
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_ 		24. March 2015 @ 11:44 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Maybe someone can help me understand what the "fight against Android" is ? They took an open source OS and figured out how to turn it into a profit. So whats the fight about ? Don't get me wrong I am android all the way but Im lost on this one.
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_ 		24. March 2015 @ 14:42 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by bbbob:
 Maybe someone can help me understand what the "fight against Android" is ? They took an open source OS and figured out how to turn it into a profit. So whats the fight about ? Don't get me wrong I am android all the way but Im lost on this one.
the title confused me as well.
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_ 		24. March 2015 @ 23:14 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Cyanogen CEO has stated specifically that they want Cyanogen to kill off Android.
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DXR88
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_ 		25. March 2015 @ 02:56 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by DVDBack23:
 Cyanogen CEO has stated specifically that they want Cyanogen to kill off Android.
so they want to kill off the very thing there entire OS is based on, that's like Linux wanting to kill off Unix.



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_ 		25. March 2015 @ 16:58 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
And if they accomplish that, who els gonna come along and try to kill them off.
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Jemborg
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_ 		30. March 2015 @ 21:25 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Hold on, is this about developing the existing Cyanogen mods like the one that can run on my phone? Or are they on about a "different" OS that can still run Android apps like the Blackberry OS?

PS: $110 mill is nothing to sneeze at guys. That's serious money.
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