OnePlus and Cyanogen have not exactly struck it out as the best of friends when it comes to business and after a long and rocky tenure, both camps are officially ending their partnership.
Such was confirmed by Cyanogen's Kirt McCaster and Steve Kondil during the Global Mobile Internet Conference held at Beijing, explaining that the two companies had different goals in mind as far as the software is concerned.
Kondik also bared that there were clashes as both Cyanogen and OnePlus had varying takes which went as far as crossing the line when OnePlus launched in the Indian market last year.
Cyanogen was the chief operating software used for the OnePlus, something which McCaster believes played an important role in helping OnePlus handset get where it is today. To sum it all up, he believes that the OnePlus gained immensely from Cyanogen in its rise to fame.
Despite the cutting of ties, Cyanogen will continue and the software is expected to be seen in low cost smartphone manufacturer MicroMax. Cyanogen and MicroMax have signed an exclusive deal which resulted in the temporary ban of OnePlus smartphones in India which ran on the custom Cyanogen OS.
And from the looks of it, MicroMax will not be the last company they would be dealing with. Though no brands have been revealed as of yet, Cyanogen is said to be currently working with new partners which will hopefully ramp up production and reach the international scene faster.
As far as OnePlus is concerned, the cutting of ties was expected especially with the development of their very own Oxygen OS.
The new Oxygen OS is already available for download, something that looks fairly similar to the stock version of the Android OS.
The OS can already be downloaded at the OnePlus site, though it will require wiping out the previous Cyanogen OS.
