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Who the heck are Nothing and Sunbird?…

I am shocked! SHOCKED!! … well, not that shocked.

They tried at least, it was a gamble but it’s nice to see tech companies try something out

Grand opening. Grand closing.

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?

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.

That was so obvious. Why the hell would they think apple would let that fly. Literally have to log in to your apple account on a Mac mini stored in a random location. Yah no privacy issue at all. Big L from Nothing

That was literally…. Nothing.

The company is called Nothing, what you see is what you get.

To surprise of no one, but at least Carl didn’t kill it before Apple announced the big iMassage changes. I know Apple would‘ve anyway, but who-knows-when. So maybe it wasn’t all for nothing^(TM)

wow they folded faster than when sam altman got fired and got called back

rare nothing L

Nothing should change their name. Seriously dumb

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.

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.

ESL learners will have a hard time with this one

This was obvious from the start

I don't get this nothing company.. the only thing different is the flashing lights. Everything else about it is nothing special!? Farephone! That's the way to go!

wow! such a surprise! /s

Android lol amirite

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.

No shit. What a simple thing to figure out and yet, the dude was like, let’s just penetrate the US market by siphoning user data. It’s like they haven’t heard of any hacking this year.

And some people are paid 6 digits to figure this out

Crazy how in trying to bring some Apple over, they did the most un-Apple thing possible!

PLAIN TEXT? HOW DOES THIS EVEN HAPPEN. HOW DOES THIS COULD GO THROUGH ALL THE DIFFERENT TEAMS AND CHECKS LIKE DAMN DO YOU NOT HAVE ANY INFORMATION SECURITY INFRASTRUCTURE SET UP?

I really don't use imessage etc stuff so I missed it. Was this an app requiring an account/SSO? If that is the case, all those SSO admins have to revoke its access immediately.

Also their servers, cloud space whatever should be confiscated, legally imaged and securely deleted.

This issue in hand can't be remedied by removal from app store. It should be flagged as a PUA.

What happened to EU, FCC etc?

When a hail mary attempt backfires terribly 😂

Nothing's FAQ said it was encrypted. So did Sunbird just lie about it and Nothing believed them without actually checking or were they in on it? Either way that's a bad sign, and while it's good that they pulled it this shouldn't have happened to begin with (also if people can just lie about encryption that says a lot doesn't it).

I guess it did what it was intended to do: create a media cycle towards them.