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Phone makers get a promise from Cyanogen to keep their software fresh with over-the-air updates, and Cyanogen gets a chance to reach a much larger audience through unlocked hardware at lower prices. But with more scale, Cyanogen stands a better chance of being taken seriously when it does decide to break free. Imagine, for instance, a phone that automatically backs up all your files and data to Dropbox, or uses Spotify as the standard for music playback.

Cyanogen wants to build an open platform where these services can play a much bigger role than they currently do as standalone apps. He offers an example: Today, if you tell an Android phone to play some music, by default the results will come from Google Play Music. Their best chance at success is simply to get acquired by the platform gatekeepers.

Other companies will be able to hop on board through a software development kit, and users would have the ultimate say over which services they want to use. Assuming Cyanogen can whip up a cast of supporting services, it still faces one major obstacle: Cutting out core Google services means losing the Google Play store, and the entire Android app ecosystem along with it.

McMaster has previously vowed to offer his own app store within 18 months, and told me that Cyanogen is still on track to do so. But instead of having a monolithic marketplace to rival Google Play, Cyanogen will likely bring in multiple app stores from various providers.

The company is apparently already working with new partners, specifically ones which can scale up production to reach the international market quicker. No brands have been mentioned by name, although another low-cost Chinese manufacturer seems likely.

However, it seems that Cyanogen is keen to break free of the competitive Chinese marketplace and into the international market, and is looking for a partner with similar global ambitions. Although, Cyanogen will continue to offer support to devices still running its OS.

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