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Nothing pulls its iMessage app from the Play Store following privacy disaster
(www.androidpolice.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
This is one of the many reasons I don't like Nothing. They are willing to put users at risk just so they can sell a few more phones.
Let me tell you Nothings strategy:
Make an extract clone of the iPhone and put some gimmick lights on it to get attention.
Make some airpod clones but make them see through to again attract attention
Try to get iMessage working on Nothing 2 (screw you if you're on Nothing 1, Apple style) to reinforce the impression you're using an iPhone.
If successful, price the Nothing 3 even higher to make it seem premium even though it's nothing special at all.
Bring features to the Nothing 3, that the Nothing 2 and Nothing 1 will never get, even though there is no reason not to give it to them too.
Repeat for Nothing 5 and every other Nothing ever. And eventually reach iPhone pricing.
In short, they are using their users just to get popular, become like Apple and get rich. Only to screw you over and make future phones super expensive.
Much like One Plus did. First you position yourself as flagship killer, and once you get a loyal following and deals with mobile carriers then you push the price sky high and give your supporters the middle finger.
Anyone who buys Nothing is a fool.
Nothing is a clone of OnePlus... repeating the same strategy of OnePlus.. destined to the same fate as OnePlus.
Being a mildly successful phone manufacturer?
Going from a sensibly priced, consumer-first, "flagship killer" phone to just another flagship phone with flagship prices
Precisely.