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CyanogenMod Announces ‘A New Chapter’ and Becomes a Company

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When you think of Custom ROMs, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Probably CyanogenMod, or MIUI, right? When most of us flashed our first ROM it was probably one of those two. CyanogenMod has been around since mid 2009 and has grown like crazy. But when you compare CyanogenMod’s growth to Android’s growth, it really doesn’t seem like it was that quick. Lately, CyanogenMod has been adding in a ton of features like an iMessage competitor, CyanogenMod Account and much more. Now that is all becoming clear. On Wednesday, CyanogenMod announced that they are now Cyanogen Inc., and they are led by Boost Mobile’s co-founder Kit McMaster. The company is solely devoted to building CyanogenMod as a platform. The good part of all this, CyanogenMod is pretty much already a platform. Some of their part-time developers, who used to do this for fun, are now full time. This includes Cyanogen himself, Steve Kondik who is the CTO and there’s also Koushik Dutta who’s the VP of Engineering. You p