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A Rift In OnePlus, Cyanogen Relationship
As reported at SlashGear and Engadget, One Plus (which has been selling phones running Android-derived Cyanogen Mod rather than Android proper) won't be selling its phones with Cyanogen Mod to Indian consumers. Instead, according to Slashgear, "When OnePlus launches their device for the Indian market, Cyanogen won't be on it. Cyanogen has instead chosen to go with Micromax, an OEM more familiar to the Indian market. Cyanogen and Micromax also have an exclusive deal." ZDNet reports that One Plus's One, loaded with Android 5.0 after this kerfuffle, will be available to Indian buyers for a 72-hour period (already in progress), rather than by invitation only, which had previously been the only option.
With all the constant trouble I, and many others had with the pre order system, I decided to ditch these guys. Their customer service was not great, and to screw up the most basic part of any business (taking peoples money), I decided my best bet was to just get raped by one of the big 4, and buy a contract phone. Sadly, I was looking forward to this phone for quite a while, but I'm tired of the mistakes and gimmicks for what amounts to last years phone.
Another typo. Stay classy, Slashdot.
One Minus One = Zero
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One Plus (which has been selling phones running Android-derived Cyanogen Mod rather than Android proper) has won't be selling its phones with Cyanogen Mod to Indian consumers.
So it has been, or won't be. *slap*
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Colin, please don't use the word "rape" unless you're talking about actual rape.
It's very offensive to the victims of actual rape when you misuse the term like you did. People have suffered greatly, and misusing the word rape like you just did denigrates the seriousness of the pain they endured during the attack, and forever after.
Let me give you an example of what I mean when I say it can be offensive. A dear friend of mine got home late one evening after attending some college classes. She sat down at her computer, and decided to update her Debian installation since she hadn't done so in a few months. Without her knowledge and without her consent, systemd was installed. Later that night she rebooted her computer so she could start using an updated kernel. Little did she know that she was going to soon become a victim. Moments later, her computer failed to boot fully, all thanks to bugs with systemd. She had been raped.
As you can see, your experience is nothing compared to what she went through. So please think twice before using the word "rape".
Thanks for your understanding, Colin.
Then what the hell are all the other phones running? Every Android phone comes with a customized version of Android on it, NOTHING comes with stock Android -- not even Google-branded phones. Cyanogenmod is in many was less customized and more like stock Android than almost any version you might find on any Android phone.
To me, that doesn't seem to be so much a "rift" as it is that Cyanogen had a couple of players to pick from, and the one they liked best wanted an exclusive arrangement, so the other lost out. Not surprising they'd pick the one with more experience in that market over the one that is just getting started.
Cyanogen has instead chosen to go with Micromax, ...
Cyanogen chose? Don't you mean One Plus chose Micromax?
Also, what tense of the verb is "has won't" as in "has won't be selling ..."
Perhaps /. has can hire a proofreader.
I had opo phone for 2 months. Each patch released introduced new issues. There is no QA being done properly
Oppo phone is junk
If I want to own an Android phone from China I would rather get a Lenovo or Huawei or even a Xiaomi rather than Oppo
Cyanogen...that's the company which screwed it's contributors by forcing them to change their license so they could profit without sharing the money with the people who actually wrote most of the code?
Fsck that company.
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