Apple

Jeez, they didn’t even try.

Sorry, so the privacy concerns turned out to be WORSE than YouTubers had mentioned.

Jfc wow.

They beat Google’s record of killing a product!

Jeez, what a week of headlines. I swear it started as Nothing will unveil iMessage for Android. Then shifted to Apple with adopt RCS. The Nothings BlueMessage getting taken down from the play store...to today it is getting killed entirely. This has got to be the shortest lifespan of a product for Android from initial public announcement to death blow.

Of course it did. Some random 3rd-party proxying plaintext copies of all users messages was never going to result in success.

I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that Apple’s 180 on adopting RCS is because they realised people will risk stupid things in an effort to interop with iMessage, which tarnishes the brand.

This was always a bad idea for any user to actually use. Always sounded like it was prone to be opening up your wallet so a third party could look inside to see what you have.

Who didn't see this coming?

Nothing didn’t do the development (Sunburst did), the problem is they didn’t do any due diligence before putting their name on it.

I just have to say this is a good reason Google is whining about iMessage.

1. ⁠They can’t access any of the iMessage data
2. ⁠A majority of their users are primarily using free phones from C level manufacturers which cause security and crap experiences
3. ⁠Wireless carriers shoulder the burden of support for those devices and could care less
4. ⁠Google has tried and failed multiple times to offer a messaging app or service that sticks around. They can’t stay committed to one messaging app or service because their people don’t care. All they care about is a win when annual reviews come around.

Grand opening. Grand closing.

This has to be have been a marketing exercise. No lawyers on payroll looked into this? Seems pretty unbelievable when user privacy has pretty consistently been in the news.

Android lol amirite

I like nothing a lot. But it seems that their desire to get publicity from this and prove a point really created a mess.

Suggest that they wait until Apple supports the encrypted rcs standard.

Down the drain

Who the heck are Nothing and Sunbird?…

Is Beeper just as bad? If so why isn't it getting slammed like Nothing has? Beeper app has been around a lot longer...

Why is every company a wannbe apple? Nothing was looking promising in carving their niche audience but alas.

I wonder what the chances are to get a real cheap Nothing iPhone 2 in a few months lol?

What does this have to do with iMessage?

Nobody saw that coming…

*User privacy and security

I forgot that part in the title and idk how to edit it😬

THANKS MARQUES!!

/s

I just don’t get the fascination from android users wanting iMessage. Use whatsapp or signal etc to get through to your apple friends or sms failing that. If you really want that blue bubble just save up for an iPhone.

Goes to show, say what you will about Apple keeping a lock on iMessage. However at lease iMessage hasn’t been blatantly exposed to the internet by careless actions from Apple.

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iCloud/AppleId has never been “hacked”. Only users with shitty passwords that someone guessed.

Guess the CEO got the hint after a bunch of tech tubers pointed out that it’s a security nightmare (login into a remote Mac Mini that now owns the keys to your Apple Account). Could also be that the unexpected RCS move made it redundant so they got the security concerns and used it as an excuse.

Essentially what happened here is there was no actual product. They had inside info that Apple was making this move and figured they would get some free PR from it. And idiot Youtubers were dumb enough to give it to them.

Not to mention the way they wanted to accomplish this killed privacy. Insanely invasive. Nobody should trust Nothing after this, if somehow you still did. And stop listening to any Youtubers who happily carried their water this week.

Profoundly is right. it's not that it had weak encryption or some niche exploit. It sent all your data, every last bit of it over unencrypted http. Plain text data transfer. It's nuts.

ESL learners will have a hard time with this one

That was a hard headline to read without context of what “Nothing” is.

Thread title sounds like gibberish.

we all knew it wasn't staying for long

And nothing just lost all brand respect from me.

Nothing just did this to look like they were responsible for Apple changing their stance on RCS. They moved according to the deadline the Digital Markets Act imposed.

End of the day be it bad or good publicity they got what they wanted.

I’m sorry but…LMAO! 😂

All of that for nothing lmao.

This is just embarrassing.

Jesus did that even last a day?

"Nothing" to see here! Move along!

All press is good press? 🙃