Microsoft’s Cortana Gets Baked into Cyanogen’s Forked Version of Android

Re:Microsoft’s Cortana Gets Baked into Cyanogen’s Forked Ver... by xlayn on Thursday January 07, 2016 @08:52AM (#10857876)

Cyanogen user on n4 for a long time because I don't want g' bits and bytes on my cellphone I find this unsettling. I see the following points on it (I would refrain from calling them plus or cons).

-The reason I did the change is avoid G using MY device as their personal Wifi scanning station, the switch meant battery 2-3x more, I hope Microsoft doesn't mess with Android that way.

-If they roll it for all devices I hope they keep a version without it, or an extra package to install like g apps.

-Nice to see Microsoft being so flexible and going on so many fronts, the more they diversify the better, if this makes Android better; Android users win.

-Could this be the start of Microsoft Android?.

-Does "deep integration" offer any kind of advantage?.

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Re:Microsoft’s Cortana Gets Baked into Cyanogen’s Forked Ver... by Namidairo on Thursday January 07, 2016 @09:08AM (#10857958)

Last time I checked you could turn off the wifi scanning, easily.

As for the "deep integration", I believe that just means they configured the screen-off hotword (which uses the Qualcomm hexagon adsp).

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Re:Microsoft’s Cortana Gets Baked into Cyanogen’s Forked Ver... by s73v3r on Thursday January 07, 2016 @12:29PM (#10859280)

This is only for the commercial offering of Cyannogen. The random roms out there for different phones that you flash yourself are not part of this.

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