CyanogenMod and the Death of the Android ROM

Today we've got another special episode! Don't worry, there will be another regular episode on Friday. In today's episode David tries to find out what happened to Android ROMming? There was a time when flashing the latest nightly on your phone had an entire community built around it, but those days disappeared.. rather suddenly. What happened? We investigate. Chapters 00:00 What is ROMming? 11:44 Rich Miner has entered the chat 14:25 What phones were like at the time 17:00 How Google got Android 26:55 XDA 29:48 Ads 33:39 Cyanogen 46:12 Carl Pei has entered the chat 49:17 Early Android 01:05:50 OnePlus letter from Carl Pei 01:08:32 A Cyanogenmod phone? 01:13:50 A fork in the road 01:14:28 Ads 01:15:13 The birth of Lineage OS 01:26:40 Why ROM now? 01:41:15 Winner of the episode Special thanks to: Mishaal Rahman:   / mishaalrahman   Rich Miner:   / richminer   Stefanie Kondik:   / cyanogen   Lineage OS team: https://lineageos.org/ Links: Rich Miner History of Android: https://bit.ly/richminerhistoryofandroid Mr. Mobile When Phones Were Fun - Sidekick:    • When Phones Were Fun: The Sidekick (2002-2...   ZTE article: https://bit.ly/ztetradeban Shop the merch: https://shop.mkbhd.com Instagram/Threads/Twitter: Waveform:   / wvfrm   Waveform: https://www.threads.net/@waveformpodcast Marques: https://www.threads.net/@mkbhd Andrew: https://www.threads.net/@andrew_manga... David Imel: https://www.threads.net/@davidimel Adam: https://www.threads.net/@parmesanpapi17 Ellis:   / ellisrovin   TikTok:   / waveformpodcast   Join the Discord:   / discord   Music by 20syl: https://bit.ly/2S53xlC Waveform is part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.