Google under Pressure as Cyanogen Partners with Microsoft
BANGALORE: Microsoft is soon going to partner the Android-based Cyanogen OS to launch a collection of innovative applications. This stride taken by the both the companies made it clear that Android is no more entirely Google's, reports TechWreck.
The partnership will involve integration of applications from Microsoft and the developing mobile OS. The list of Microsoft applications includes Skype, Outlook, Bing, OneNote, OneDrive and Office. This integration suggests Google applications like Hangouts, Gmail, Maps will now get replaced by Microsoft’s applications.
Apart from Google, Apple’s iPhone and Windows Phones also come preloaded with numerous home-bred applications which are inbuilt and cannot be uninstalled. Despite most of these applications being idle, they cannot be replaced with better substitutes. Cyanogen, however, has replaced this feature in its business model and has kept it ‘all-open-everything’.
Cyanogen would no more be an OS that would thrust unwanted applications on your mobile and would allow usage of any better alternatives uninstalling the undesirable ones unlike in Apple and Google devices. The update, on the other hand, would not affect the functioning on the current devices.
Cyanogen is sure to draw gains from the partnership yet the model wouldn’t work if there aren’t as many options for applications. In the view of this, Microsoft has already started its venture to bring as many mobile developers into the partnership as possible. The company has set forth to launch the broadest available ecosystem on mobile.
Amidst all this, what one should wonder is why Microsoft would come up with such a deal when it owns a mobile platform which hasn’t earned substantial space in the market in the last five years.
Probably, this is how Microsoft would retrace back to success making its software available on popular rivals. The company launched Outlook on both Android and iOS this year while Office was made available for free on the same last November. Cyanogen, undoubtedly, would provide greater exposure and potential to Microsoft’s slow-on-progress apps.
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