Jide’s Remix OS, a desktop fork of Android, is being killed off
It was a fun ride while it lasted, Jide. The company that promised the ultimate desktop fork of Android — complete with floating windows, mouse and keyboard support, a start bar surrogate, file system, and more — has announced it will no longer sell to consumers. Development on “all existing products,” including the Remix OS software and the company’s hardware offerings, will stop immediately. Anyone who backed Jide’s products on Kickstarter (like this Remix OS-powered TV box) will get a full refund; the repayment process will start on August 15th.
The company isn’t dead, though, and says its new focus will be catering to businesses instead. “Over the past year, we received an increasing number of inquiries from enterprises in various…
