Cyanogen had a great team and a very promising business model . Where they screwed up badly is relationships and partnerships with OEMs and vendors. The massi

Cyanogen had a great team and a very promising business model . Where they screwed up badly is relationships and partnerships with OEMs and vendors. The massive fiasco with Oneplus (which by the way is going strong) or the short-lived partnership with Micromax-Yu which was terminated for reasons unknown. I think they got greedy too fast without building loyal customers. At some level they believed that customers would have no real choice for older devices . What instead happened was that Xiaomi and Oneplus completely destroyed incentives to hold on to older phones for any reasonable amount of time. And Cyanogen had already burned those bridges. I am willing to bet CM will either build their own phone (the cyanogen "Nexus") or get acquired by Google or someone - who anyway are looking for some kind of replacement for the Android One/Silver program. I bet all those who are being let go are partner services.