One of the most popular mods.
Near stock experience.
Aims to take Android away from Google and make it even more open.
- https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-main-differences-between-stock-Android-and-CyanogenMod
- http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-4/help/cm-vs-aosp-t2244613
Created by https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevekondik, got some VC money in 2013, and started a company. TODO how do they make money?
110M raised by 2015: http://uk.businessinsider.com/cyanogen-raises-80-million-2015-3?r=US&IR=T
Goal seems to be to free Android from Google, which might interest Amazon, Microsoft, and Yahoo
TODO: based on CyanogenMod? But adds more convenient apps to it, while CyanogenMod is just the system?
https://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/All_About_Recovery_Images
Downloadable from: http://download.cyanogenmod.org/