OnePlus has addressed its Indian users regarding the recent announcement that Cyanogen has made a deal with Indian handset manufacturer Micromax. The deal gives exclusive rights to Cyanogen’s software to Micromax in India, leaving out the OnePlus One, which is powered by Cyanogen. Naturally, OnePlus expressed disappointment in the deal.
Additionally, OnePlus says they are bewildered at this move by Cyanogen. The two companies have previously cooperated on the launch of the OnePlus One in 17 countries, including India. The company does say that the One will continue to receive software updates globally, but apologizes to Indian customers who feel deceived.
What a mess.
there’s something about going commercial and being a corporation that turns everyone into idiots. cyanogen reminds me of canonical
No worries, it’s the power of open source, Indian’s people with a computer can debug, recompile and update their smartphone. And for free.
This does smack of a young company with inexperienced people making silly decisions because they’ve been blinded by money. They probably want the cash quickly but aren’t thinking about growth, or building trust with partners and users.
Where’s the line between being blinded by money, and needing some for actual living?
Hate the game, not the players?
not being an asshole is the line. if you can’t figure out a way to make money without being an asshole, nobody will give a crap whether you need it or not.
OnePlus One Windows phone become available?
Looks like they are waiting for some demand to develop.
So maybe never.
What is stopping OnePlus from supplying a forked version of CM just for the indian market?
Yup would’ve thought that’s doable and legit.
I mean CyanogenMod -the name, mascot and logo are trademarked by CyanogenMod LLC
but the code is licensed Apache and GPLv2 so yeah.
But if OnePlus have their own internal Android Team, working of a Lollipop AOSP codebase now – they may wish to stick with just that. (possible knicking a few choicer CM mods too.. ;-))
>>> No worries, it’s the power of open source, Indian’s people with a computer can debug, recompile and update their smartphone. And for free.
>>> What is stopping OnePlus from supplying a forked version of CM just for the indian market?
Even so, you have to ackowledge that if you were a company/community/whatever that worked this closely whith CM in the recent past you would most likely recieve this like a backstab.
Something like this surely disrupts (not destroys) most proyections they could have made so far.
IMHO, a bad move from CM, shady and greedy.
Unless, of course, OnePlus was aware of it and is now just playing victim…
How long has it been since the OnePlus was introduced? Can you walk into a store, any store, and buy one? Can you go online any time you want and order a OnePlus phone? The answers are a year, no, and no. I would think that Cyanogen looked at all this and decided to take on an arrangement with a company that produces actual phones and sells them to the buying public. They decided enough with the vaporware thing, it is time to sell phones. The OnePlus phone is probably a wonderful device, but after a year you still can’t buy one whenever you want, which is just not acceptable. The cellphone industry is a fast-moving one, phones come and go in 6 months time, so the window is short for maximizing sales. The OnePlus One is rapidly becoming behind the times and it isn’t even on sale yet!
Yup. One plus sales method sucks. So does their advertising. It was a good phone when it was announced. Regional exclusivity by cyanogen still sucks, but maybe these are the deals a young company needs to make to generate revenue.
Edited 2014-11-30 14:44 UTC
So true.
It’s annoying enough when large established players announce products far in advance of their launch (crowd-funding announcements are of course different – you take them with a pinch of salt).
But CES and similarly placed announcements which sometimes seem are more about gauging product interest than being a true announcement are annoying. While apple are sometime hugely annoying in their lack of roadmaps of any kind – they are what they are, and that’s less annoying than overly early announcements or worse still vaporwares. e.g. Come on Lenovo, where’s my ThinkVision 28 !?
Admittedly less keen since i read it’s probably a TN display even if it does get a final release mind :
http://www.cnet.com/uk/products/lenovo-thinkvision-28-smart-4k-disp…
Edited 2014-11-30 15:29 UTC
It has been 6 months, not a year.
Micromax, as far as I can determine, is a popular phone brand with good name recognition in India. Why wouldn’t Cyanogen choose them as a partner?