Despite what Cyanogen Inc. might lead us to believe, things are definitely not going well for the company. Making matters worse, a comment from Steve Kondik (a.k.a Cyanogen) himself confirms a previous rumor about the company exiting the OS business completely.

Kondik says in his comment in a commit that Cyanogen Inc. is not going to have much involvement in the development of CyanogenMod 14 this time around.

There isn’t really going to be much if any involvement from the Inc this time around and I’m taking on a lot of stuff on my own to try and keep us moving forward.

Last month, there were reports that the CyanogenMod user base was grossly inflated by the company to easily secure funding. Additionally, reports claimed that Cyanogen Inc. was pivoting to apps and laying off 20% of its workforce. Cyanogen Inc’s CEO Kirk McMaster was quick to refute the reports and said the company had no plans to pivot to apps and its mission of “creating an OPEN ANDROID stands.”

However, if the latest comments from Steve Kondik is anything to go by, things don’t really look too bright for Cyanogen Inc. and its future.

Cyanogen Inc. played a key role in the development of CyanogenMod 12 and 13 because the company ultimately bases CyanogenOS — the one that it sells to OEMs — on it. While CyanogenOS does come with some additional enhancements and features over CyanogenMod, it has not particularly done well. All the various mods and projects launched under CyanogenOS have failed and OEMs that tied up with Cyanogen Inc. for the OS have had less than pleasing things to say about the company.

The lack of involvement from Cyanogen Inc. should not affect the development of CyanogenMod 14 in anyway though since thousands of developers work on it for free.