By Jon Porter
You remember Cyanogen OS right? It was an open-source alternative to Android that offered additional features that the stock operating system lacked.
However, after becoming popular with Android power-users and seeing itself installed as the default operating system on the OnePlus One and a couple of WileyFox handsets, the OS was folded and forked into the LineageOS project in late 2016.
Now Cyanogen Inc’s former CEO has claimed that at one point Nintendo approached the company to create an OS for ‘a certain portable’.
In a (now deleted) tweet, McMaster said, “In the early days of cyanogen Nintendo wanted us to create an os for a certain portable. I told them to stick it.”
McMaster didn’t go into detail about why he was so against working with the company (and nor does he specifically say the portable was the Nintendo Switch), but a later tweet suggests that it had something to do with the company’s unwillingness to develop a piece of hardware that also worked as a phone.
These tweets have now been deleted, leaving a single tweet in praise of Nintendo’s latest piece of hardware.
It’s hard to think that Nintendo’s choice of OS …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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