[sleepyK]

CM's commitment to bringing support to legacy devices is admirable, but they bundle some very annoying, redundant and as OP says unsecured applications with their ROM packages.

CM Account, CM Updater, Movie Studio, File Manager and CM Wallpaper are all apps that I uninstall as soon as I flash a ROM to one of my devices.

Their CM File Manager for one is a totally redundant application that hasn't been updated in a long time, despite being broken (it doesn't work in Super User mode without done juggling about)

Their CM Account is one other thing that I find totally pointless.

CM would be better off bringing more innovative features to Android instead of just copying drivers from CAF and changing headers to say CM instead of CAF or AOSP.

The innovation in the Android ROM community has been coming from Paranoid Android, AOKP, Omni and Slim ROMs, and from the Xposed community.

They've been reduced to being a repo shepherd for certain devices, but most of their user base comes from people running "Unofficial" builds compiled by independent developers.

I think, as a start up, they'd be better off if they focused on features instead of just trying to market CM Phones that essentially run a Nexus like build of plain vanilla Android.