Monday, February 12, 2018

Wileyfox May Now Be Done And Out

Wileyfox
It has been more than a year since the well-funded startup Cyanogen announced that it would shut down its mobile OS development, and since pivoted to self-driving technology.

At this time, however, everyone is still seeing some fallout among the companies that had pinned their hopes on the original plans of that shooting star. Wileyfox, a smartphone maker that was one of the earliest companies to build a handset based on Cyanogen before it then pivoted to Android in the wake of the shut down, has filed for administration after it ran out of money.

TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that about 30 people have been laid off as a result.

The news was first leaked out by an ex-employee on Reddit a few days ago, noting that staff were informed last 6 February of the news.

In a smartphone market dominated by economies of scale in manufacturing, outsized marketing budgets and significant deals with carriers to help sell devices, it's hard for new operating systems to put a dent into a smartphone market dominated by Android and Apple's iOS, and harder still when they are a small handset maker carrying the OS.

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