Microsoft uses Cyanogen to restrict Android

Android's dominance in the mobile internet era is as if it were Microsoft's Windows status in the PC era, and no one can shake it. But the situation has changed slightly since last year's Android5.0 release, and Android5.0 began to have some closed signs of Android, Android Wear, Android TV, Android Auto prohibits third party OEM custom interface, Samsung, Millet and a series of Android phone manufacturers are beginning to have some sense of crisis, fear that one day this situation will be on the Android phone to repeat the same, which for the differentiated customized mobile phone brands, is a major blow. None of them wants to make Android phone like a PC, except for a slightly different look, the built-in Windows system interface is exactly the same.

It was under such circumstances that someone stood up and started to challenge Google. But not Microsoft, but the Android third-party ROM cyanogenmod,android system, which has 12 million of users, has been completely open source for all of humanity in the first place, and Google wants to turn Android into a closed itself has violated the original Android when the beginner, but also violates the Internet's open principle, CyanogenMod want to under Android, to re-establish a set of ecological circle.

CyanogenMod is a custom system based on the Android Open source project. The difference is that Google-led Android has bundled a range of Google services, such as mail, calendars, maps, app stores, chrome apps, and users are completely unable to delete them, only to clean up Google's services by brushing the machines. For example, you can brush cm, which allows you to experience cleaner, more native Android systems.

CyanogenMod's brand of mobile phones that it cooperates with is completely open source, and handset makers can use CM's underlying code to customize their own mobile interface, and there is no need to bundle up Google services. This is certainly a step against cyanogen, which basically means that Cyanogen is declaring war on Google, taking over the native Android, allowing users to use the Android system without Google services in general, and domestic like MIUI, hammers, The bottom of the FlyMe system is customized according to CM.

Microsoft uses Cyanogen to restrict Android

The Microsoft Windows Phone system's share of the global mobile ecosystem has fallen to a poor 3%, basically determining that Windows Phone systems are no longer likely to compete with Android and iOS. Even Windows Phone Microsoft is relying on last year's acquisition of Nokia to support, Luima mobile phone accounts for the vast majority of the entire Windows Phone market share, Windows Phone can be said to be a non-existent, even if the WINDOWS10 release, Windows Phone evolved into a Win10 mobile phone, the machine brother also not too optimistic about its prospects. Mobile OS, high-end iOS dominance monopoly, Android is basically a new demonstration of Microsoft in the PC era Windows style.

One notable feature of Microsoft's Nadra era is its habit of competing with Google-style, which has made an unexpected investment in 70 million of billions of dollars in venture capital to the Cyanogen company that develops Android custom ROM. According to the analysis, Microsoft hopes to unite the company, weakening Google's control over the Android mobile ecosystem and pushing Microsoft apps to the ground on the Android platform.

The current list of cyanogen investors is unknown outside of Microsoft, but these investors have a common strategic goal, hoping to build an independent country in the Android ecosystem through CyanogenMod.

Microsoft's view on Cyanogen, in a short period of time is to hope that cyanogen expand its influence to split Android, to attract more mobile phone manufacturers to work with it. But for a long time, Nadra is not just trying to restrict Android with Cyanogen, he wants to buy Cyanogen to complete Microsoft's mobile OS dream to compete with Android for a fake Android battle with real Android. Could anyone doubt that a small cyanogen company really has the strength to develop an operating system that is so huge? If only by cyanogen the current strength of the people, of course not, they can only improve the entire Android system experience, but not to create the Android system of functional innovation, but if Microsoft's borrowing, Cyanogen may not have the strength to compete with Android.

Google apps to move office cheese

Ten years ago, Google released its own office suite, Google Apps, hoping to move Microsoft's core cheese office with cheap leverage. Decades have passed, office is still the world's most popular office software, corporate office is basically inseparable from office, but does not mean that Microsoft Office in the mobile internet era and the era of the PC as the dominant influence, now there are too many office suites to some degree can replace office, Google's Google Apps, for example, Apple's free iwork.

For Google Apps, PwC has signed a landmark cooperation agreement with Google to provide Google Apps to 45,000 of the world's 180,000 employees and resell it to their customers, though not the largest Apps agreement signed by Google, but significant, Google Apps's collaboration with PWC means it has finally entered the mainstream corporate apps that Microsoft dominates, and Google apps will use PwC's cooperation to persuade more companies to work with cheaper Google apps.

Google apps has also robbed many of its share of Microsoft Office in the past decade:

1. More than 5 million companies use Google Apps, which includes regulated industries such as finance (Spanish swap Bank), medical Insurance (Roche) and aerospace industry/defense (Rockwell Collins International, USA). That means Google must meet their stringent safety and reliability standards.

2, more than 600 companies of 10,000 active Google Apps users.

3, 50% of paid users are from outside the United States.

4, Google's customers and enterprise file storage products (respectively known as "Drive" and "Drive for Work") has achieved great success. The number of users grew from 190 million at the end of June 2014 to 240 million, and they often used drive at home, school and unit.

5, more than 1800 users per week registered drive for Work.

6. More than 40 million students, teachers and administrators use Google Apps for education, including 7 of the 8 Ivy League colleges and most of the top 100 universities in the United States.

It is clear that the Nadra era of Microsoft is more aggressive than before, Google last year's share price decline, but there are signs of aging. Facebook has been snapping at Google's core online ads at the mobile end, which should have an absolutely dominant Android system, and Google is not fully in control, leading Microsoft to take advantage of the CyanogenMod to compete with Android. In the past, Google has been overwhelmed by the 10-side ambush of Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and Amazon, and Google's current crisis is unprecedented.